| DE | HB435 | Intro
25% | This bill creates a new chapter in Title 30 and establishes the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Program (STAR Program) and the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Fund (STAR Fund). The purpose of this STAR Program is to incentivize and attrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB437 | Intro
25% | This bill modifies the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs employee requirements to make the Executive Director an exempt position, and to allow the hiring of non-veteran employees when needed. This will positively impact veteran families by redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB427 | Intro
25% | This Act protects consumers by regulating home improvement contracts. Among other things, this Act provides the buyer with a right to cancel home improvement contracts within 3 days (5 days for those over the age of 62 or with a disability); limits c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 13 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB429 | Intro
25% | This legislation, the State Spending Accountability Amendment, is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would reform the state budgeting process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB271 | Pass | Currently, section 712 of Title 7 of the Delaware Code prohibits the hunting of any game birds or game animals (except deer) on Sundays. This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting game birds on Sundays. The Department of Natural Resources a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB281 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB282 | Enroll
75% | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB352 | Engross
50% | This Act gives county code enforcement constables the authority to tow abandoned vehicles on private property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Amendment SA 1 to HB 352 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB286 | Engross
50% | Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB287 | Engross
50% | 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 law-enforcement canine retired from a police department of a political subdivision of the State of Delaware.
[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 | HB16 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB354 | Engross
50% | This Act gives the dependent children of active military members, full-time Delaware National Guard members, and active duty members of a reserve component of the US military priority in choice and charter enrollment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB416 | Intro
25% | This Act raises the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of a low-speed vehicle from less than 2,500 pounds to 3,000 pounds or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB417 | Intro
25% | Survivors of child sexual abuse that occurred in this State who have been barred from filing suit against their abusers by virtue of the expiration of the former civil statute of limitations, shall be permitted to file those claims in the Superior Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB87 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Amendment SA 2 to HB 87 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB328 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill No. 288 of the 151st General Assembly (Chapter 371 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware) created a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use pulsating headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB349 | Engross
50% | This bill codifies that the Superior Court Veterans Treatment Court is a qualified rehabilitation program under § 4177D of Title 21 of the Delaware Code for persons seeking to have their driver's licenses reinstated after a DUI. This Act makes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB373 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Chapter 49 of Title 29 to enable the Office of Highway Safety to solicit and receive subscriptions, donations, and other funds from individuals or organizations for the purpose of implementing highway safety programs and projects that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB392 | Intro
25% | The United States Department of Agriculture runs a voluntary program that provides risk management coverage to dairy producers that pays out based on the difference between the national price of milk and the average cost of feed. This Act enables the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB404 | Intro
25% | To address the significant spread and impact of Lyme Disease in Delaware, this bill creates a Lyme Disease intervention fund. The fund shall be overseen by the Department of Agriculture and shall have the goal of reducing the prevalence of Lyme disea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 7 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB272 | Engross
50% | This act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB378 | Engross
50% | This Act requires health spas selling subscription services online to provide a prospective buyer of such a subscription the right to cancel the automatic renewal online. The option to cancel is also to be presented on the website in a clear and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB399 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB203 | Intro
25% | With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB127 | Engross
50% | This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB343 | Intro
25% | This Act reduces the State's rate of realty transfer tax by .25% per year for 4 years, for residential property conveyances having a property value less than $500,000, and for commercial property convenances having a property value less than $1,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 3:00 pm]
Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | 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 | HB329 | Intro
25% | This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Amendment HA 1 to HB 329 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB310 | Engross
50% | The United States Space Force was established on December 20, 2019 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The Space Force became the 6th branch of the United States Armed Forces. This Act inserts the Space Force in those sections of the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 8 Favorable |
| DE | HB296 | Intro
25% | This Act grants school districts and charter schools the ability to decide if they want to pay prevailing wage for school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB357 | Intro
25% | This Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (Task Force), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB318 | Engross
50% | This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB245 | Intro
25% | The Constitution of the State of Delaware creates 3 branches of State Government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, each having certain delineated responsibilities or powers within a framework that limits and separates the powers of each bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB59 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a residential drinking water purification system program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB294 | Intro
25% | This bill adds optometrists to those health care providers eligible for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB323 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the crime of criminal mischief to include damaging an authorized emergency vehicle, defining them as vehicles of a fire department, fire company, police vehicles, ambulances, as well as vehicles used by a fire chief, chief engineer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB303 | Intro
25% | This Act modifies the eligibility standard from 100% disability to 80% disability or greater for veterans to qualify for the credit against taxation on qualified property and corrects a typographical error.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB256 | Intro
25% | This act limits the repair waiver expenditure required by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to a uniform statewide amount of $450.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| 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 | HB149 | Intro
25% | This Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax rate increases resulting from cost-of-living pay increases that push lower income taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB106 | Pass | This Act codifies the Motorcycle Rider Education Advisory Committee (Committee). The Committee must meet at least quarterly to monitor the Motorcycle Rider Education Program and assess the future needs of and recommend improvements to the Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB259 | Intro
25% | This Act facilitates the interstate and intrastate shipping and delivery of alcoholic liquors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB289 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $8,000. The burial benefit has not been increased sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB22 | Intro
25% | School personnel report that school safety is a significant issue that affects whether or not they stay in the profession. This Act makes recklessly or intentionally causing physical injury to an employee, contractor, or subcontractor of a public or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB297 | Intro
25% | Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB321 | Intro
25% | This act increases from $110 to $330 each personal exemption credit for certain lower income earning individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB20 | Intro
25% | This Act enhances the General Assemblys oversight of regulations adopted by state agencies by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB21 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in review and oversight of regulations adopted by State agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration Committee |
