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PositionBillStatusSummaryAction
#1SB202EngrossedFor claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act inc...
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2024-03-14
Amendment HA 1 to SB 202 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
#2HB357IntroducedThis Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (Task Force), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102.
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2024-03-14
#3SB218IntroducedThis Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that states that the power to tax should be limited and reserved solely for the purpose of financing necessary and essential governmental programs and operations and for no other purpose. The un...
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2024-03-15
Stricken in Senate
#4HB211PassedThis Act clarifies the process of obtaining a Nursery Inspection Certificate through the Nursery Industry License Application (NILA), which is now available online. This Act also cleans up and updates language used in relation to Nurseries and Nurser...
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2024-02-28
Signed by Governor
#5HB264IntroducedThis Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
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2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
#6SB211IntroducedThis Act directs the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to adopt javelin as an approved event for all DIAA sponsored track and field competitions.
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
#7HB304IntroducedThis Act mandates that all individuals applying for employment with DTI undergo a state and federal criminal background check through the State Bureau of Identification.
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Technology & Telecommunications) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
#8HB20IntroducedThis Act enhances the General Assemblys oversight of regulations adopted by state agencies by doing all of the following:
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2024-02-29
#9HB316IntroducedThis Act creates a new elections crime: use of deep fake technology to influence an election. Under this statute it would be a crime to distribute within 90 days of an election a deep fake that is an audio or visual depiction that has been manipulat...
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2024-02-29
#10SB241IntroducedThis bill expands the timeframe in which a candidate may withdraw from the presidential primary election, including the option of not holding such an election in the event of only one remaining candidate. The approximate cost of a Presidential Primar...
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2024-03-14
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate
#11HB350IntroducedThis Act creates the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board, which will be responsible for review and approval of annual hospital budgets beginning with budgets for calendar year 2026. Hospital budgets established under this process are required to...
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2024-03-12
#12SB2EnrolledThis Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 2. Like Senate Bill No. 2 this Act does all of the following:
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2024-03-14
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
#13HB87EngrossedThis Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
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2024-03-13
#14HB7IntroducedThis Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. Th...
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2024-03-05
Stricken in House
#15HB5IntroducedThe States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
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2024-03-07
#16HB149IntroducedThis Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax rate increases resulting from cost-of-living pay increases that push lower income taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This is r...
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2024-03-12
#17SB174IntroducedThis Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 174. Like Senate Bill No. 174, this Act adds Justices of the Peace, Commissioners in Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and Magistrates in Chancery to the State Judicial Pension Plan.
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2024-03-18
#18HB247IntroducedThere were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked s...
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2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits
#19HB255IntroducedThis Act makes several updates to the Boiler Safety Program. The Boiler Safety Program can issue certificates of compliance and the Secretary can grant variances. A 6th member is added to the Boiler Safety Council from associated labor unions. It add...
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2024-03-14
#20HB259IntroducedThis Act facilitates the interstate and intrastate shipping and delivery of alcoholic liquors.
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2024-03-12
Not Worked in Committee
#21SB197EngrossedThis Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a...
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2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
#22HB270IntroducedThis Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case,...
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2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
#23HB272IntroducedThis act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t...
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2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
#24SB199EngrossedThis Act further clarifies the application of the provisions of this chapter.
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2024-03-05
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 Favorable
#25HB277IntroducedThis Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
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2024-02-29
Amendment HA 1 to HB 277 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
#26HB289IntroducedSection 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $8,000. The burial benefit has not been increased sin...
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
#27SB210EngrossedThis Act establishes the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Technology and Information or their designee as a member of the Enhanced 911 Emergency Reporting System Service Board by virtue of their position. The Act clarifies the Chief Inf...
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Technology & Telecommunications) in House with 6 On Its Merits
#28SJR4EngrossedThis Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
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2024-03-13
#29HB302IntroducedThis Act requires all group, blanket, and individual health insurance policies to cover prostate screening for men at high risk for prostate cancer who are over the age of 40. Men at high risk for prostate cancer means African American men or those w...
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2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
#30HB303IntroducedThis Act modifies the eligibility standard from 100% disability to 80% disability or greater for veterans to qualify for the credit against taxation on qualified property and corrects a typographical error.
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2024-02-29
#31HB22IntroducedSchool personnel report that school safety is a significant issue that affects whether or not they stay in the profession. This Act makes recklessly or intentionally causing physical injury to an employee, contractor, or subcontractor of a public or ...
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2024-03-13
Tabled in Committee
#32HB19IntroducedThis Act creates a background special license plate for the United Way of Delaware Pride Council.
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2024-03-05
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
#33SB229IntroducedThis Act extends the right of employees to inspect their own personnel files to former employees. Under this Act, an employer must permit a former employee to inspect the employee's own personnel files that exist at the time of the request. This ...
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2024-02-29
#34SB224IntroducedThis Act removes private schools from the Safe School Zone law enacted last year, Chapter 175 of Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware (House Bill No. 201, 152nd General Assembly).
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2024-02-29
#35SB214IntroducedThis Act amends the Charter of the Town of Millsboro to give the Town Council the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax.
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2024-02-29
#36SB223IntroducedThis Act is the product of the work of stakeholders who, with the encouragement of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 50 (152nd General Assembly), met to examine how to integrate mobile-integrated healthcare and community paramedicine into existing reg...
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
#37HB317IntroducedThis bill creates a requirement for all sellers of third-party gift cards to display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards.
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2024-02-29
#38HB307IntroducedThis Act provides a tuition waiver for victims of human trafficking who are enrolled in the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, or Delaware Technical Community College.
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2024-02-29
#39HB318IntroducedThis Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
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2024-03-13
Not Worked in Committee
#40SB222IntroducedThis legislation closes a loophole in the current law which allows 100% of the work being completed on a jobsite to be done by workers only possessing an apprentice license. Currently, under Delaware law, an apprentice license can be acquired with li...
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2024-02-29
#41SB220EngrossedMedicaid is generally the payer of last resort, meaning that Medicaid only pays claims for covered items and services if there are no other liable third-party payers for the same items and services. When Medicaid beneficiaries have one or more additi...
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2024-03-14
#42SB213IntroducedThis Act amends the Charter of the Town of Millville to restore the authority of the Town Council to impose and collect a lodging tax. This authority to impose and collect a lodging tax was enacted under Senate Bill No. 162 (150th) in 2019 but was in...
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2024-02-29
#43HB306IntroducedThis Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle that is operated in violation of the law requiring stopping for school buses as evidenced by School Bus Safety Cameras.
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2024-03-06
Motion to Release Failed
#44HB313IntroducedThis Act ensures that all female inmates in DDOC custody, at level IV or V, receive annual or biennial screening mammograms as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
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2024-02-29
#45HB308IntroducedThis Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting perio...
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2024-02-29
#46HB21IntroducedThis Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in review and oversight of regulations adopted by State agencies.
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2024-02-29
#47SB221IntroducedThis Act provides that the next of kin of a member of the Delaware National Guard or a fire or police department in Delaware and who has served in at least 1 of those organizations for at least 10 years is entitled to a flag, which may be draped over...
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2024-03-05
Amendment SA 1 to SB 221 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
#48HB298IntroducedThis Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu...
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2024-02-29
#49SB227IntroducedThis Act creates dedicated information technology units for Delaware public schools. Currently, the State does not provide funding units for information technology employees, leaving districts and charter schools to finance these positions from a var...
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2024-02-29
#50HB312IntroducedSchool board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inf...
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits
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