| DE | HB285 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB205 | Pass | This Act promotes increased capital investment at Delaware casinos by restructuring the table games licensing fee reduction currently received by lottery agents to allow capital investments greater than the minimum amounts required under § 4815(b)(3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB292 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the statute on disclosure of pupil records to ensure compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and improve information sharing between educational institutions and programs operating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB382 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB386 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act revises the definition of massage establishment by repealing the exemption for all business establishments licensed under other chapters of Title 24. This exemption allows a massage practitioner to work in a licensed cosmetology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB304 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB307 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill for Senate Bill No. 307 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 fabr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR144 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes June 6, 2024 as the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied Troops landed at Normandy during WWII.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB274 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB277 | Engross
50% | This Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB302 | Engross
50% | According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death from cancer in men. It is estimated that about 1 in 41 men will die of prostate cancer. According to ZERO Prostate Cancer, Black men face serious health ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB332 | Engross
50% | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB269 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB279 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB280 | Intro
25% | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB298 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| 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] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB200 | Enroll
75% | This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB20 | Enroll
75% | The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB334 | Enroll
75% | This Act makes several technical and logistical corrections to the Delaware Marijuana Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| DE | SB277 | Engross
50% | Under this bill, the Board of Massage and Bodywork may not issue initial certifications to practice as a certified massage technician for applications received after December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| 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] | 2024-05-21
Amendment SA 1 to SB 278 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB371 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SCR161 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates the week of May 13-17, 2024, as "Charter Schools Week" in the State of Delaware and commends Delaware's public charter schools for their efforts in educating Delaware students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SCR166 | Engross
50% | This resolution marks May 17, 2024, as the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Courts landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case and honors the courage and fortitude of all who sparked the action leading to the Bulah v. Gebh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| 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] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| 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] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB265 | Intro
25% | This act requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Amendment HA 5 to HB 265 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB351 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a new chapter in Title 21 pertaining to the towing of vehicles without the consent of the owner or operator. It makes violations of the chapter an unlawful practice enforceable by the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Jus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB363 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-14
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | SCR154 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes May 11, 2024, as "National Train Day".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR128 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes the week of May 6-10, 2024, as Teacher Appreciation Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HCR127 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution commends the 2024 Delaware State Teacher of the Year, Cory Hafer, and all of the District Teachers of the Year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| 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] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB203 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | SB252 | Engross
50% | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 252 is identical to Senate Bill No. 252 except that SS 1 for SB 252 corrects a spelling error in the synopsis to avoid confusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB190 | Engross
50% | This bill updates the current law relating to the Spay Neuter Fund and the administration of that fund to make it easier to administer the fund and animal population control programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB251 | Engross
50% | The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (DIVME) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| 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 | HB381 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Delaware Real Estate Commission to create a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (guide) for landlords and tenants. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB166 | Engross
50% | This Act allows for the delivery of alcoholic liquors from a restaurant, brewpub, tavern, taproom, or other entity with a valid on-premise license. In addition, this Act provides that the acts of a licensed consumer delivery permittee or a delivery d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB255 | Intro
25% | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| 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 | HCR117 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 21-27, 2024, as "Crime Victims' Rights Week" in the State of Delaware. The following websites provide more information on Crime Victims' Rights Week and the resources available to victims ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB3 | Engross
50% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to eliminate the limitations on when an individual may vote absentee and authorizes the General Assembly to enact general laws providing the circumstances, rules, and procedures for absentee vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Amendment HA 2 to SB 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
