| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides for Referendum. Under this Act, the right of Referendum is confined to a 60-day period immediately following the enactment of legislation into law. Thus, except for emergency legislation, those Acts which presently become effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides for Initiative. There are two forms of Initiative: direct and indirect. In the direct Initiative procedure, when there is a sufficient number of signatures on the petition, the initiated proposal is automatically assigned space on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-05
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB23 | Pass | This amendment eliminates the $2,000 threshold for the bidding and award of contracts and sets the threshold at $7,500; authorizes the Town Council to establish by Ordinance the procedures for the procurement of material, labor or services; and, if i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB35 | Pass | The State Employee Benefits Committee has voted in favor of providing health coverage for those “eligible child dependents” who will graduate from college in May 2011. Under the terms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB36 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that water and sewer authorities fall within the Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes 12 year term limits for members of the General Assembly. The bill allows completion of Senate terms if the 12 year limit falls mid term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill eliminates the stipends for certain members of committees, chairs of certain committees and leadership positions as itemized in 710(c) of Title 29. It grandfathers all existing members in such positions until the next General Assembly. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB16 | Pass | This Act implements the recommendations of the Senate’s Teacher Hiring Task Force. It will result in the creation of an estimated unit count each March, which the Department of Education will conduct using existing resources. The state will gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB50 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill will ensure that the redistricting process becomes entirely open. While the Freedom of Information Act has an exception for matters discussed within caucuses of the General Assembly, it is best that this process be entirely open. Accordingl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-13
To House Administration Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | At present, almost all States provide for the ratification of constitutional amendments. In Delaware, a proposed constitutional amendment must be approved by two General Assemblies. It is the purpose of this Act to provide that, after a constitutiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill requires consolidation of the three vocational-technical school districts effective for the 2012-2013 school year. This will save considerable public funds and increase efficiency of this system. The Bill provides for one statewide school b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-06
Reported Out of Committee (EDUCATION) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB51 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides the Department of Health and Social Services with the explicit authority to investigate and inspect unsanitary or unsafe conditions in certain locations where medical or health-related treatment is provided. In addition, it provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-05
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill enacts a mechanism for the licensure, monitoring, and oversight of abortion clinics in the State of Delaware. It provides that the Division of Public Health inspect and oversee licensure of facilities. In addition to creating criminal penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill creates special license plates for Sussex, Kent and New Castle County paramedics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would close the “gun show loophole” by requiring firearms vendors to have a licensed firearms dealer perform a background check prior to the sale, delivery or transfer of any firearm at a firearms show. For first offenses, firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adds 2 more public members to the Advanced Acquisition Committee and corrects an oversight by naming the committee in the provision creating it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-17
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB8 | Pass | This Act would remove the requirement that a Councilperson relinquish his or her Council seat in order to become a candidate for Mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB7 | Pass | This Act establishes a three year “look-back” for the TUR (total Unemployment Rate) trigger for EB (Extended Benefits) retroactive to December 18, 2010. Under the current two year look-back TUR trigger, the State will most likely trigger ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB6 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Milford by authorizing a change in the date of the Annual Municipal Election to prevent any conflict with the Easter Holy Days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2012 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-28
To Senate Bond Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill corrects inconsistencies with respect to including the type of construction as a qualifier for a particular trade’s prevailing wage rate, and provides for a method to establish wage rates at the end of any five year term. It also prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill prohibits registered lobbyists from performing official duties for State government, thereby preventing conflicts of interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill expands Delaware’s Public Assistance Code to provide urgent and preventive dental care for eligible Medicaid recipients who are pregnant or become pregnant while receiving assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
