| DE | HB288 | Pass | This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the "Division of Legislative Services" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include dra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB241 | Pass | This bill expands the timeframe in which a candidate may withdraw from the presidential primary election, including the option of not holding such an election in the event of only one remaining candidate. The approximate cost of a Presidential Primar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB122 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Office of the Child Advocate and Office of the Investigation Coordinator to provide child victim data and information to the Office of Investigative Services during presentence investigations of defendants convicted of felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB121 | Pass | This Act codifies that the Child Protection Accountability Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families, is responsible for developing, maintaining, and conducting child abuse mandatory reporting,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB186 | Pass | This Act makes changes to the requirements for placement on the sex offender registry of individuals who are adjudicated delinquent of certain offenses. First, it reduces the number of offenses for which placement on the sex offender registry is mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB229 | Pass | This Act removes the required window for submission of a final plan from the Redding Consortium to the State Board of Education and instead requires that the State Board act on any plan submitted by the Redding Consortium within 3 months. It also all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB6 | Pass | In 1682 or 1683, the Sussex County Court, created by William Penn, created the land grant that is the subject of this Act (Warner Grant). As this Act describes, the Warner Grant consists of land in and adjacent to the City of Lewes largely consisting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB123 | Pass | This Act provides that any adult day care facility required to be licensed under Chapter 1 of Title 16 is subject to the existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB142 | Pass | This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB125 | Pass | In December 2022, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 151st General Assembly in 2022 or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB151 | Pass | This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB67 | Pass | This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB36 | Pass | This Act provides a definition for 911 Dispatchers. While referenced in other sections of the Code, including being identified as a first responder in § 4319 of Title 11 for purposes of confidentiality of communications by first responders for criti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB118 | Pass | Due to continuing concerns over the negative health effects secondhand smoke will have on the youth of Delaware, this bill adds Smoking Restrictions within vehicles if a person under the age of eighteen (18) is in the vehicle. Also, it makes clear th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB184 | Pass | Research has shown that certain underwriting factors used by insurers, while facially neutral, may have a disparate impact on protected classes. This bill seeks to address this disparate impact by prohibiting certain underwriting and rating factors, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB73 | Pass | This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 73 provides a 5-year statute of limitations for the Department of Labor to bring civil actions to recover nonfraud overpayment debts and no period of limitations to recover fraud overpayment debts. This port...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB152 | Pass | This Act expands the rights of long-term care facility residents by ensuring that long-term care facility residents are entitled to care that recognizes cultural differences and preferences and that long-term care facility residents are made aware of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB145 | Pass | This Act increases the limits on the dollar amount of awards of compensatory or punitive damages, or both, in cases of employment discrimination, establishing specific caps based on the number of the respondent's employees. This Act also clarifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB78 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB8 | Pass | This Act is the second substitute for Senate Bill No. 8. Like Senate Bill No. 8 and its first substitute, this Act protects patients from unfair debt collection practices for medical debt, including prohibiting large health care facilities from charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB146 | Pass | Under current law, an individual can file a charge of employment discrimination by sending the verified charge to the Delaware Department of Labor (Department). This Act clarifies that a verified charge of discrimination is deemed to be filed on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB154 | Pass | This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 80 codifies the current practice in Delaware of not requiring proof of citizenship or a specific immigration status on an application for a professional license. By affirmatively providing eligibility for professional licenses regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB108 | Pass | This Act revises the State's Gold Alert Program to include missing children and increase dissemination of information to the public to better assist the State's search efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | In 2017, the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Public Law No. 115-97, suspended many itemized deductions from individual federal taxes until January 1, 2026, including the itemized deduction for costs to maintain membership in a labor organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB132 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act amends § 6504 of Title 10 to correct two erroneous cross-references (the cross-references will now correctly reference Title 12 rather than Title 10 of the Delaware Code).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB138 | Pass | This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB51 | Pass | This Act prohibits food establishments from providing consumers with ready-to-eat food or beverages in polystyrene foam containers or with single-service plastic coffee stirrers, cocktail picks, or sandwich picks. It also prohibits food establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB87 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 87. Like Senate Bill No. 87, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB202 | Pass | This Act limits those individuals who may possess a firearm at a polling place on an Election Day to the following: (1) law enforcement officers, (2) commissioned security guards acting in their official capacity, (3) constables acting in their offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB201 | Pass | As of April 4, 2023, 74 people have been killed or injured by guns in schools this year in 13 separate school shootings. School shootings hit a record high in 2022 with 46 shootings, surpassing 2021s record of 42 shootings. In 2022, 43,450 children e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB165 | Pass | This Act amends Chapter 25, Title 24 of the Delaware Code relating to the Practice of Pharmacy. The amendments authorize pharmacists to engage in collaborative pharmacy practice with one or more practitioners meaning individuals who are authorized by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB93 | Pass | This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by requiring that the Board, consistent with the Boards Rules and Regulations, issue written decisions following hearings on unfair labor practice charges within 30 days of the close of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB189 | Pass | This Act adds xylazine and it isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers to Schedule III of the Delaware Uniform Controlled Substances Act and expands the authorization for the distribution of testing strips to determine t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB176 | Pass | This Act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a retired law-enforcement canine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB52 | Pass | This Act directs the States current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB176 | Pass | This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB80 | Pass | This Act requires that doula services be covered by Medicaid in Delaware by January 1, 2024. It follows up on HB 343 from the 151st General Assembly which required the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to submit a plan for implementing this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB218 | Pass | This Act changes the composition of the Commission and further clarifies the definition of veterans as it pertains to this Section of Title 29. The Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs is comprised of members, appointed by the Governor, who repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB62 | Pass | This Act requires that each county reassess the value of real property in the county at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessment currently being conducted by each county is completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB158 | Pass | This Act permits an individual who is a reproductive health care services provider or employee to apply for participation in Delaware's Address Confidentiality Program, which allows participants to keep their actual address confidential by applyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB156 | Pass | Under the current salary scale for teachers, if a permitted paraprofessional in a school wishes to become a certified teacher in the same school, they may have to take a pay cut to do so. This Act provides teachers who previously worked as paraprofes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB11 | Pass | This Act requires new commercial buildings with a foundation footprint of 50,000 square feet or greater to meet certain requirements to ensure that their roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB126 | Pass | This Act clarifies to whom the annual report must be sent and the date that the report must be submitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB103 | Pass | Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more and more popular. Between 2012 and 2016, EV sales grew at an annual rate of 32%. In 2017, growth in sales reached 45%. Batteries for EVs have become much cheaper in the last 10 years, enabling EVs to compete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR2 | Pass | This resolution designates August 31, 2023, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware, affirms the importance of overdose awareness, and encourages expanded efforts to keep Delaware residents properly informed of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB99 | Pass | This Act, known as the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023, follows the issuance of Delawares Climate Action Plan in 2021, and establishes a statutory target of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB170 | Pass | This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This Bill amends the Delaware Energy Act, Title 29 of the Delaware Code, Chapter 80, Subchapter II, by updating and expanding upon the duties of the State Energy Office (located in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Controls Divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
