Delaware Senator David Sokola [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
DE	SB276	Engross 50%	This bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-19 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm] To House Administration 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	HB253	Engross 50%	This Act is a substitute for House Bill 253. Like HB 253, it requires health insurance companies, including State employee/retiree health plans and Medicaid, to cover annual mammograms for the purpose of early detection for a woman 40 years of age or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
DE	SB216	Engross 50%	This Act increases the civil penalties for violations of the statutes in Title 16, Chapter 11 related to Long Term Care Facilities and the regulations adopted pursuant to it. For violations that the Department determines pose a serious threat to the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	SB25	Engross 50%	This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f). [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SB244	Engross 50%	This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 To House Housing Committee
DE	SB246	Engross 50%	For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	SB248	Engross 50%	This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the em... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT
DE	SCR142	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution observes April 2024, as the "2024 Month of the Military Child" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SCR145	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 18, 2024, as "National Line Worker Appreciation Day" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Passed In House by Voice Vote
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]	2024-04-18 To Senate Executive Committee
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]	2024-04-18 To Senate Executive Committee
DE	HB274	Intro 25%	Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DE	SB169	Intro 25%	This bill creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, parole, probation, and sex offender registration in t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DE	HB304	Engross 50%	This Act mandates that all individuals who have received a conditional offer of employment with DTI and any contractor or third party that requires access to DTI systems, facilities, or data, must undergo a state and federal criminal background check... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB18	Engross 50%	This bill amends the Merit System of Personnel Administration by allowing for preference in hiring for casual seasonal employees who are performing the same job duties of a posted merit position. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB319	Intro 25%	This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Amendment HA 2 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DE	HB17	Intro 25%	This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB326	Intro 25%	This is a substitute for House Bill No. 326. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 326
DE	SB21	Intro 25%	Like Senate Bill No. 21, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 21 this Act) establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 To Senate Finance Committee
DE	HB353	Intro 25%	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]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
DE	SB256	Intro 25%	This Act clarifies the Attorney Generals existing authority to enforce the States consumer protection laws, specifically the Attorney Generals ability to pursue non-penalty civil remedies, such as damages and restitution, without having to show that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 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]	2024-04-17 To House Judiciary Committee
DE	HB380	Intro 25%	This Act makes technical changes for clarity by adding a definition of mental condition to the Code section that deals with relinquishment of firearms for persons who may be a danger to self or others (also known as a red flag law). It also extends t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 11:00 am] To House Judiciary Committee
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]	2024-04-17 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Executive Committee
DE	HB147	Intro 25%	This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 147
DE	HB127	Engross 50%	This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DE	HB288	Enroll 75%	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]	2024-04-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	SB235	Engross 50%	This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 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 To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DE	SR21	Engross 50%	This resolution recognizes the efforts of Hawks, Inc. in helping with the clean-up of the 11th Street Bridge after Hurricane Ida in 2021. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	SCR144	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 2024 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 Passed In House by Voice Vote
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	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]	2024-04-16 To Senate Executive Committee
DE	HB364	Intro 25%	This Act requires that individual, blanket, and group health insurance carriers cover drug treatment for the associated conditions of metastatic cancer in the same way treatment for metastatic cancer is covered. Specifically, it requires insurance co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DE	SB164	Engross 50%	This Act allows for correctional officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days following its enactment. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To House Judiciary Committee
DE	SB132	Intro 25%	Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have passed legislation establishing a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. At least 18 states have passed such legislation. Of these 18 states, 12 states have a Student Loan Ombudsperson and 13 h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To Senate Finance Committee
DE	SB194	Engross 50%	This Act allows pharmacists, under protocol approved by the Division of Public Health, to provide HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis treatments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)
DE	SB198	Engross 50%	This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To House Judiciary Committee
DE	SB263	Intro 25%	This Act limits the use of plastic and other beverage container rings, as well as plastic shrink wraps and plastic tops used to connect beverages, by expanding the definitions of beverage and beverage container and prohibiting beverages from being so... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
DE	HB363	Intro 25%	This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 1:00 pm] To House Housing Committee
DE	SB260	Intro 25%	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]	2024-04-11 [Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm] To Senate Education Committee
DE	HB371	Intro 25%	This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 [Hearing: Apr 23 @ 12:00 pm] To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	HB285	Enroll 75%	This Act amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
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]	2024-03-28 To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
DE	SB238	Engross 50%	This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 To House Judiciary Committee
DE	SCR132	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims April 2024 as "Second Chance Month" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SCR133	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 2024 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Passed In House by Voice Vote