| SCR26 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution adds representatives from a mountain bike and an equestrian group to the White Clay Creek State Park Citizens Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
| SCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors Salesianum School freshman Ben Hylak for his hard work and creativity in conceiving, designing and building a telepresence robot, which he calls MAYA, for the purpose of helping elderly persons and others with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
| SCR27 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating February 6, 2012 as “Ronald Reagan Day” in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
| SCR28 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes February 2012 as Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-24
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
| SJR7 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution honors the memory and accomplishments of Major Allen McLane of Smyrna, a great hero of the American Revolution. It urges the citizens of the state in general and those of Smyrna and Kent County in particular to consider a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-15
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 |
| SB123 | Pass | This Bill corrects some incorrect references to subsections, limits the number of times an applicant can take the licensing exam before having to re-apply for the examination and provide evidence of additional education or experience; permits the inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB119 | Pass | If enacted this bill would bring the State into compliance with the Military and Overseas Voters Empowerment Act by giving the Departments of Elections sufficient time to prepare and send ballots to military and overseas voters at least 45 days befor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB117 | Pass | Delaware has implemented a successful agricultural lands preservation program under which Preservation easements have been acquired to permanently protect over 100,000 acres or approximately 20% of Delaware’s available farmland. To carry on Del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB89 | Pass | This Bill will change the date of the Presidential Primary from the first Tuesday in February to the fourth Tuesday in April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB118 | Pass | If enacted this Bill would bring the State into compliance with the Military and Overseas Voters Empowerment Act by giving the Departments of Elections sufficient time to prepare and send ballots to military and overseas voters at least 45 days befor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB155 | Pass | This legislation will make it clear that the office of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, formerly a part of the Department of Health and Social Services, is now a unit within the Division of State Police existing command structure and that the agents tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB32 | Pass | Section 1 of this bill requires permanent revocation of the license of any person convicted of a felony sexual offense. Section 2 makes it a ground for discipline if a licensee fails to report child abuse or neglect as required of persons licensed in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB52 | Pass | This Act amends 2306 of Delaware’s probate code as it relates to distribution of the decedent’s personal estate without the grant of letters by the Register of Wills when the decedent’s personal estate is valued at less than $30,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB31 | Pass | Section 1 of this bill provides that no person who has been convicted of a felony sexual offense can receive a license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene. Section 2 of this bill requires permanent revocation of the license of any person convicte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB38 | Pass | This bill would create a safe-passing zone between a motor vehicle and a bicycle, when the motor vehicle is overtaking a bicycle traveling in the same direction. If a three-foot-wide passing space is not possible, then the driver of the motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB110 | Pass | This Act would amend the Charter of the Town of Georgetown to enable the borrowing from a Federal or State source if the interest rate on such borrowing is fixed at zero (0%) percent and the borrowing comes with one hundred (100%) percent forgiveness...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB33 | Pass | This bill adds to the section on grounds for disciplinary action the requirement that a physician’s assistant report to the Board any doctor, physician assistant or healthcare provider who is reasonably believed to be guilty of unprofessional c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB132 | Pass | This bill is a result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and establishes a Provider Advisory Board. This Board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Office of Child Care Licensing with regard to adopting, promulgating and amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB134 | Pass | This bill would amend the insurance code to allow patients to assign their right to receive benefits under their health insurance policies to physicians and other health care providers. In addition, this bill would incorporate the provisions of Secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-07-13
Signed by Governor |
