| SB186 | Pass | This Bill expands the restrictions against motor vehicle parking in residential districts to trailers that are not attached to a motor vehicle. It also limits the parking of non-oversized motor vehicles with trailers to locations immediately adjacent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB187 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill amends 21 Del. C. 313 and 4203 as they pertain to information contained in accident reports which allow for the public inspection of information in those reports when (1) it is for purpose of researching the history of vehicles; (2) the inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-10
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB168 | Pass | This bill transfers administration of the Animal Welfare License Fund from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to the Department of Agriculture which currently manages the Delaware Spay/Neuter Program and Fund so as to conso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB174 | Pass | First responders are placed in high-stress situations every time they are called upon to respond to an emergency or incident, since the extent of the emergency cannot be anticipated and the eventual outcome cannot be predicted. Many times first respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would prohibit all members of the General Assembly from being employed by the State of Delaware while in office, unless the member was already a State employee at the time the member was elected to the General Assembly, or the member became ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | The use of rocks or stones to allow advertisements and business solicitations greater distance when thrown on residential properties has become a concern due to the damage they can cause to private property, including vehicles in driveways. This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (SMALL BUSINESS) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB172 | Pass | This bill adds a parent representative, the President of the Delaware Parent Teacher Association, to the P-20 Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB170 | Pass | This Act serves to codify numerous policies that promote the autonomy of the Alderman’s Court and thereby foster public confidence in the Court. The Act describes the processes of nomination, appointment by the Governor and confirmation by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill creates a disciplinary action if a veterinarian gives vaccines in excess of the recommended dosages and/or frequencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-01
Stricken |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | If a municipality or county passes a land-use ordinance that violates state law, an aggrieved party has only 60 days to file a court challenge. After that, the ordinance cannot be challenged, nor can subsequent decisions based on that ordinance be ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill eliminates imperiling the family relationship as a cause of action in Family Court. With the enactment of the protection from abuse legislation, the imperiling the family relationship cause of action is no longer necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill requires instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-24
Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| SB158 | Pass | This Bill repeals statutes establishing or dealing with the following entities: Section 1 - Advisory Council for Children Youth and Their Families Section 2 – Corps of Oral Hygienists Section 3 – Delaware Development Corporation Section 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB173 | Pass | This act would expand and clarify the purposes for which bonds may be issued without a referendum vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB153 | Pass | This Act is intended to conform Delaware law to new federal law prescribing external review of adverse decisions by health carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB85 | Pass | This bill clarifies that the applicable post-judgment interest rate on any judgments entered in cases of personal loans is the lesser of the legal interest rate or the contract rate. This bill does not affect the usury statute or other special circum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB34 | Engross
Sine Die | This legislation expands the composition of the State Employee Benefits Committee and provides Delaware public employees with representation on the Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Amendment HA 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill provides for disclosure materials and information to be distributed where additional density or bonuses have been granted by the local government. It also provides for penalties for failures to provide these materials at the discretion of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
To Senate Community/County Affairs Committee |
| SB166 | Pass | This Act would remove the requirement that the valuation and assessment of real property be conducted every 3 years. The purpose of this Act is to allow the City of Dover flexibility to adjust the timeframe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act delays implementation of HB 180 [which will create a journeyperson electrician and apprentice electrician license and will eliminate an exception that allows for unlicensed persons to perform electrical work under the supervision of electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
To Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee |
| SB164 | Pass | This Bill removes the Sunset Provision from last year’s public education unit count law so it does not sunset on April 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | In the event of a vacancy in the office of New Castle County President, this amendment removes the requirement for a costly special election. Where the vacancy is in the office of the President, the members of Council are required to appoint from amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
To Senate Community/County Affairs Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill eliminates the portions of the Delaware Uniform Athlete Agents Act which referred to the Board of Athlete Agent Examiners, which has been sunsetted. However, provisions of the Act which do not require action by the former Board remain in ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Stricken |
| SB163 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill phases in a $1.00 increase in the state minimum wage through January 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-20
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | This is the Delaware “DREAM” Act. “DREAM” is an acronym which stands for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. The Delaware DREAM Act will permit undocumented students to pay tuition and fees at the in-s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB152 | Pass | This Bill requires operators of three-wheeled motorcycles to take appropriate knowledge and skills tests and obtain a motorcycle endorsement on their driver license. Persons who take a motorcycle endorsement skills test on a three-wheeled motorcycle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB165 | Pass | This act would, after the April 2012 regular municipal election, increase the term lengths for the Mayor and City Council of the City of Dover from two (2) years to four (4) years. As an initial matter, the Mayor and Council members elected in the Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB96 | Pass | This bill updates the code to define eligible members of the Parks and Recreation Council appointed by the Governor. When the Parks and Recreation Council was created, the former Recreation Advisory Council was eliminated; this legislation would elim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB80 | Pass | This Bill raises the annual assessment paid by all insurance companies licensed in the State of Delaware from $550 in effect since 1995, to $750. The change of assessment will enable the Delaware Insurance Fraud prevention Bureau to continue its oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | This Bill would confirm that bicycles may legally operate when proceeding straight in right-turn-only lanes, as well as when operated upon the paved shoulders of the state’s roads and highways. Because many of these shoulders are also used as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the provision requiring that participants in the Delaware Healthy Children Program pay a premium to participate, while allowing the Department of Health and Social Services to consider instituting minimal co-payments for health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB160 | Pass | This Act amends the Uniformed Controlled Substances Act by clarifying that the definition of “designer drugs” covers those synthetic analogues of controlled substances that are made and distributed for drug use but due to their novelty ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB135 | Enroll
Sine Die | School Based Health Centers exist in 28 Delaware high schools and provide convenient, confidential, and effective health services to students. Parents must consent each year to their child’s use of the SBHC. The federal government is requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| SB87 | Pass | This Bill requires the Department of Justice to establish and provide standardized FOIA request forms. These forms shall be used by all public bodies. The uniformity should help provide prompt compliance and less questions at the front end of the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB98 | Pass | Under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) it requires that private health plans cover evidence-based preventive services and immunization. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has recommended vaccinations, health scre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB42 | Pass | Sections 1-8 of this Bill provide that the Mortgage Rescue Fraud Protection Act in 6 Del. C. Chapter 24B will protect homeowners 60 days in default on their mortgage loans. Currently the protections are in effect after an action for foreclosure is fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB48 | Pass | This Act prohibits the use of a deceptive or fraudulent record, document, or statement to support an action to foreclose
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB137 | Pass | This Bill creates a moratorium on health insurance providers that charge higher cost sharing for different classification of prescription drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB111 | Pass | The Act requires the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) to adopt regulations regarding the appropriate recognition and management of student athletes exhibiting signs and symptoms consistent with a concussion during practices, scrim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This legislation authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to adopt guidance and minimum standards to minimize risk from flooding with the input from a stakeholder advisory group. Such standards or equivalent standards ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB144 | Pass | This Bill amends Title 24, 2301 and 2302, of the Delaware Code as it relates to pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and scrap metal processors by requiring any person or entity who buys and sells scrap metal to be subject to the provisions under this Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB108 | Pass | Section 1 of this Bill would ensure that Delaware medical providers do not take advantage of the section of the statute that allows for the “greater of” clause by opening a facility across state lines to perform procedures on patients tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB139 | Pass | This amendment requires licensed pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, scrap metal processors to electronically submit transaction records in a format acceptable to the applicable police agency by noon the next business day. This amendment also requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Contained in its entirety within this legislation was the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, referred to as the NRRA. The NR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB92 | Pass | This Bill revises DNREC’s chronic violator program. It adds a purpose section, makes various technical revisions, adds and makes consistent several definitions, clarifies and expands the standard and criteria for chronic violator status, adds c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB93 | Pass | This bill clarifies that any third party that contracts with autoclubs for services, such as towing, are not captured in the definition of such under the insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB65 | Pass | This Act expands the definition of “nuisance” to include illegal gun crimes, criminal gang activity, recurring violent activity and other public nuisances that cause a tangible injury to the surrounding properties and businesses. The Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB148 | Pass | This legislation turns the William Nelson Armory upon vacancy by the Delaware National Guard over to the Town of Middletown to be used for the American Legion Post 25 and/or the Appoquinimink Boys and Girls Club. The legislation states that the prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB154 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. The bill presents extensive revisions to make the Real Estate Commission’s licensing law consistent with other Title 24 boards and commissions. In addition, the amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-03
Signed by Governor |
