| SB151 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151. Like Senate Bill No. 151, this Act requires included facilities to disclose information related dementia care services in the form determined by the Department of Health and Social Services, and it es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 151 |
| SB307 | Intro
25% | This Act clarifies the meaning of custom fabrication as first defined in Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill No. 102 in the 152nd General Assembly. That substitute bill modified the relationship between custom fabrication and the prevailing wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB422 | Intro
25% | This Act defines certain facilities which will require an applicant seeking a permit for a new facility, or expansion of an existing facility, or renewal of an existing permit, located in an overburdened community, as defined in the Act, to provide a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| HB403 | Intro
25% | This Act transfers the sections pertaining to assessment functions and the New Castle County Board of Assessment Review from the subchapter governing the functions of the Department of Land Use to the subchapter governing the functions of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Elections to review every political committees contribution and expense report and to note the report, on the Departments website, as either Submitted but Not Reviewed or Reviewed and Final. If the Department disco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB306 | Intro
25% | This Act makes technical changes and updates to the Delaware workplace safety program. Under current law, qualifying employers who pay $3,161 or more in annual workers' compensation premiums may be eligible for lower insurance premiums under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB402 | Intro
25% | This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB308 | Intro
25% | This Act adopts the Uniform Special Deposits Act (the Act) authored by the Uniform Law Commission. The Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB309 | Intro
25% | This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
25% | This Act amends Section 2603 of Title 16 to require the Division of Public Health to provide the results of lead screenings or tests to school nurses and require contracts or computer upgrades to include lead results.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
25% | This Act simplifies and in some cases increases the civil penalties for violations of laws related to dogs that run at large, dogs that bite a human being or domestic animal while running at large, and dogs that are designated as dangerous or potenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 269 |
| HB375 | Intro
25% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the amount of the premium for a health-care insurance plan that this State will pay on behalf of eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB408 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a temporary conversion license for existing medical marijuana compassion centers to operate for recreational marijuana purposes, and sets forth requirements to obtain a conversion license and to operate under such a license. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB330 | Intro
25% | This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 330 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB376 | Intro
25% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the state group health insurance program must include a pensioner coordination of benefits policy for el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
25% | To address the significant spread and impact of Lyme Disease in Delaware, this bill creates a Lyme Disease intervention fund. The fund shall be overseen by the Department of Agriculture and shall have the goal of reducing the prevalence of Lyme disea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB377 | Intro
25% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee (RHBAS). Under this Act, the State must continue to offer eligible pensioners first employed by the State as a regular of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
25% | This Act moves the date of primary elections for statewide office, county office, and municipal office to the fourth Tuesday in April, which is the date of the presidential primary (in presidential election years). The dates for submitting and withdr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB399 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB407 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes an application process, policies, procedures, operational instructions, and requirements for licensed transporters to obtain and use transporter license plates when transporting vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
25% | This bill grants the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement the ability to enter into offers in compromise with importers to resolve alleged violations of Title 4 and Office of the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner Rules. Currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
25% | This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits any autonomous vehicle with a gross weight of 10,001 pounds or more from being operated on a Delaware highway for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator being physically pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 258 |
| HB244 | Intro
25% | This Act directs phased in unit funding for every school or district to have an athletic trainer. A school or district with less than 3 sports teams must submit an application to the Department of Education should it wish to receive partial funding f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
25% | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB298 | Intro
25% | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 1 to HB 298 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB304 | Intro
25% | This Act makes changes to nonacademic training requirements for school district and charter school personnel to help ensure that mandatory trainings are relevant to student needs and based on best practices. While nonacademic mandatory trainings are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| 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] | 2024-05-15
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
Not Worked in Committee |
| SB294 | Intro
25% | This Act removes assigned salary schedules established for child care licensing specialists and child care licensing supervisors, who are employed through the Department of Education. By removing this language, the Department of Education will be abl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
25% | The Delaware Fair Housing Act, Chapter 46 of Title 6, and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Chapter 51 of Title 25, both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| SB44 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB291 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the registration of trade names for sole proprietorships, partnerships, and associations in the Superior Court prothonotaries and places registration of such trade names with the Division of Revenue. Additionally, this Act provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| SJR7 | Intro
25% | This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Office of Child Care Licensing to adopt an electronic record and filing system that will modernize the States child care system. The OCCL must provide a report regarding the adoption of an electronic record an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB295 | Intro
25% | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| SB289 | Intro
25% | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB397 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this Act is to reduce the cost to the State in addressing ownership of land encumbered by public right-of-way permanent easements when the land has been abandoned by a prior owner and a current owner cannot be located. This Act will al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB291 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB282 | Intro
25% | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB279 | Intro
25% | Section 2306 of Title 14 requires that when a new school is constructed or a major renovation is undertaken, the construction or renovation must include certain safety features, including a secured vestibule and the installation of "ballistic re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB372 | Intro
25% | This Substitute bill clarifies that the definition of day does not include Saturday, Sunday, any federal holiday, or any State legal holiday when the specified number of days is 12 or less. When the specified number of days is more than 12 days, day ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| SB285 | Intro
25% | This bill eliminates the requirement that Justice of the Peace Court constables reside within the State of Delaware. The residency requirement was established when Constables were independent officers, and had their own bonding requirements and penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| SB296 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Delaware Antitrust Act (DAA) (Chapter 21, Title 6 of the Code) to provide indirect purchasers who have been harmed by violations of the Delaware Antitrust Act the ability to sue for damages. Indirect purchasers of a product or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB203 | Intro
25% | With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB284 | Intro
25% | This Act discharges balances owed by individuals ordered to pay a probation supervision fee under § 6504(14) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code or a Public Defender fee under § 4607 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The probation supervision fee and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB297 | Intro
25% | This Act acknowledges the importance of diversity and inclusivity in education by requiring the Department of Education to update content standards and regulations using a non-exhaustive list of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| SB283 | Intro
25% | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB254 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative. It directs the Office of State Planning Coordination (Office) to study food insecurity in urban and rural food deserts. The Act defines a food desert and directs the Office to expand access to healthy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB343 | Intro
25% | This Act reduces the State's rate of realty transfer tax by .25% per year for 4 years, for residential property conveyances having a property value less than $500,000, and for commercial property convenances having a property value less than $1,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB398 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the City of Seaford Charter to remove the section regarding Fire Department Appropriations, specifically, the City Council's authority to set aside or appropriate up to ten percent of real estate taxes to provide for and maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Administration Committee |
