| DE | SB260 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB259 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates and modernizes the DIAA Board of Directors' composition. This Act also makes technical corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB313 | Engross
50% | This 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 7 Favorable |
| DE | HB350 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board, which will be responsible for an annual review of hospital budgets and related financial information. The Board will have 7 members: 6 appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB264 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the sunset provision under § 315 of Title 26, relating to the electrical and natural gas utility distribution system improvement charge. By doing so, the Act leaves the current version of § 315 in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
[Hearing: May 14 @ 10:00 am]
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB270 | Intro
25% | This Act is the statutory recognition of the recommendations set forth in the June 2, 2023, report of the DEFAC Benchmark Evaluation and Review Panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB374 | Intro
25% | This Act updates House Bill 455 from the 151st General Assembly by providing the same legal protections afforded providers of contraceptive and abortion services to providers of fertility treatment. In summary, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB16 | Intro
25% | The governance of this State relies on the qualifications and performance of the members of the Governors cabinet. The General Assembly finds that the confirmation process is an important step to ensure the qualifications and performance of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB15 | Intro
25% | The governance of this State relies on the qualifications and performance of the members of the Governors cabinet. The General Assembly finds that the confirmation process is an important step to ensure the qualifications and performance of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB280 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates the DIAA's Executive Director from an education associate level position in the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB281 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Task Force (Task Force). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB200 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB209 | Enroll
75% | This Act prohibits rental companies, shared vehicle owners, and peer-to-peer car sharing programs from recovering damages and charging administrative fees relating to the loss of use of a rental vehicle or shared vehicle. This Act abrogates the commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Passed By House. Votes: 22 YES 14 NO 5 ABSENT |
| DE | HB333 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB353 | Engross
50% | This Act provides civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful disclosure of deep fakes that depict individuals in the nude or engaging in sexual conduct. It provides the same remedies as those available under: (1) the Delaware Uniform Civil Remedies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB385 | Intro
25% | Throughout 2023, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with potential technical corrections that the Code Revisors identified as the Code Revisors revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 152nd General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB288 | Pass | This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the "Division of Legislative Services" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include dra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR125 | Intro
25% | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and supports a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, delivery of immediate and sustained humanitarian aid to Gaza, and diplomatic action to facilitate long-te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB316 | Intro
25% | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB231 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable |
| DE | SB271 | Intro
25% | This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | HB281 | Engross
50% | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB282 | Engross
50% | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB278 | Intro
25% | This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB308 | Engross
50% | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: May 15 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB13 | Engross
50% | This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB140 | Engross
50% | This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attendin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB270 | Engross
50% | This 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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB5 | Intro
25% | The 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB110 | Intro
25% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SJR6 | Intro
25% | This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB322 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage and Culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
[Hearing: May 15 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HCR107 | Engross
50% | This Resolution recognizes April 11 - 17, 2024, as "Black Maternal Health Awareness Week" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB365 | Intro
25% | This Act is enabling legislation that establishes the framework and requirements for a competitive mobile sports wagering market in Delaware under the authority of the Lottery Director. Sports wagering is now legal in 38 states, and 29 states have le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB24 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a new charitable donation option on the Delaware income tax return. It allows taxpayers to direct a donation to the SL24: Unlocke the Light Foundation out of their state tax refund or in addition to the payment of owed tax. The Found...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB299 | Engross
50% | This Act is the Delaware Libraries for All Act. It explicitly adds public libraries to the definition of place of public accommodation for purposes of Delawares Equal Accommodations Law. It also directs the Delaware Library Consortium to develop and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
[Hearing: May 15 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB340 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HCR99 | Engross
50% | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 21st, 2024, as "Rosie the Riveter Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB263 | Engross
50% | This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB268 | Engross
50% | House Bill No. 303, with House Amendment No. 2, from the 151st General Assembly created an annual behavioral health well check and required carriers to provide coverage for this service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB232 | Engross
50% | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
[Hearing: May 14 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB16 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB273 | Engross
50% | This Substitute bill adds 5 additional speech-language diagnosis to the 2 diagnoses listed in H.B. 273 and references that all 7 speech-language diagnoses are classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for billing purposes. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SB159 | Enroll
75% | This Act removes membership with the Blood Bank of Delaware as a recognized benefit by the State due to changes in policies in how hospitals and insurance companies bill for blood replacement and blood replacement procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB2 | Enroll
75% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 2. Like Senate Bill No. 2 this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HCR89 | Engross
50% | This resolution designates March 2024 as Womens History Month in Delaware to raise awareness and celebrate the contributions of women in our society, and for the greater good of our nation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB247 | Intro
25% | There 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR90 | Engross
50% | This House Concurrent Resolution designates March 12, 2024 as "Equal Pay Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
