| DE | SB280 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates the DIAA's Executive Director from an education associate level position in the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
[Hearing: May 8 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB281 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Task Force (Task Force). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
[Hearing: May 8 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB381 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Delaware Real Estate Commission to create a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (guide) for landlords and tenants. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB279 | Intro
25% | Section 2306 of Title 14 requires that when a new school is constructed or a major renovation is undertaken, the construction or renovation must include certain safety features, including a secured vestibule and the installation of "ballistic re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB300 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that all assisted living facilities that are not subject to CMS regulations maintain accreditation from an independent accrediting organization approved by the Department of Health and Social Services, that assisted living facilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB231 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable |
| DE | SB22 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 22 |
| DE | SB255 | Intro
25% | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB260 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB259 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates and modernizes the DIAA Board of Directors' composition. This Act also makes technical corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB267 | Intro
25% | This Act clarifies various aspects of the States unclaimed property laws, specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB269 | Intro
25% | This Act simplifies and in some cases increases the civil penalties for violations of laws related to dogs that run at large, dogs that bite a person or domestic animal while running at large, and dogs that are declared dangerous or potentially dange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB265 | Intro
25% | The Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 authorizes processes necessary to help meet the net zero goals of the Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023. The bill facilitates a transition to carbon-free energy sources by (i) preparing for offshore wind t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB351 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a new chapter in Title 21 pertaining to the towing of vehicles without the consent of the owner or operator. It makes violations of the chapter an unlawful practice enforceable by the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Jus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB245 | Intro
25% | The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB358 | Intro
25% | This Act serves to clean up certain sections of the Boards Practice Act. Required statutory language omitted due to oversight have been added, such as standards for reciprocity, issuance and renewal of licenses, and hearing procedures. The requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB371 | Intro
25% | This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB379 | Intro
25% | This Bill would reinstate language formerly in the Delaware Code which would permit insurance agents to issue checks to policyholders in time sensitive situations without having to qualify as claims adjusters. This practice would be subject to regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB275 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this Act is to combat aggressive driving and dangerous speed differentials on targeted roadways. This Act prohibits vehicles from traveling in the left lane on the portions of State Route 1 or Interstate 495 that are an express highway...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB204 | Intro
25% | This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses and other staff positions in long-term care facilities in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB274 | Intro
25% | Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB326 | Intro
25% | This is a substitute for House Bill No. 326.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 326 |
| DE | SJR6 | Intro
25% | This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB266 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the ability for persons to bring an action under the Delaware False Claims and Reporting Act (DFCRA) for failures to comply with reporting requirements of the Delaware Unclaimed Property Law (UPL). It leaves untouched the ability of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB270 | Intro
25% | This Act is the statutory recognition of the recommendations set forth in the June 2, 2023, report of the DEFAC Benchmark Evaluation and Review Panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
[Hearing: May 8 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB258 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits any autonomous vehicle with a gross weight of 10,001 pounds or more from being operated on a Delaware highway for testing purposes, transporting good, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator being physically pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB331 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a scholarship for students who have completed a Delaware Teacher Academy and are enrolled in a Delaware Educator Preparation Program. This scholarship supplements the Educator Support Scholarship and is intended to fill a $2500 fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB347 | Intro
25% | This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB215 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 | HB332 | Intro
25% | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 14 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB239 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the 5-year term limit imposed upon hearing officers appointed by the Secretary of Labor. It also removes the political party affiliation rule when considering new candidates for the hearing officer position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Laid On Table in Senate |
| DE | SB240 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (Division) to produce a report by March 31, 2025, that documents home care services as measured using the most common billing codes for the home care industry. The Act identifies the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB340 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB247 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| 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 | HB264 | Intro
25% | This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB306 | Intro
25% | This Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle that is operated in violation of the law requiring stopping for school buses as evidenced by School Bus Safety Cameras.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB307 | Intro
25% | This Act provides a tuition waiver for victims of human trafficking who are enrolled in the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, or Delaware Technical Community College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB222 | Intro
25% | This legislation closes a loophole in the current law which allows 100% of the work being completed on a jobsite to be done by workers only possessing an apprentice license. Currently, under Delaware law, an apprentice license can be acquired with li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB217 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a professional loan-to-grant incentive program to encourage Delawareans to pursue careers in nursing at long-term care facilities. Funding for the incentive program is to be appropriated annually by the General Assembly, in an amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB325 | Intro
25% | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Capital Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB266 | Intro
25% | This Act adds wages earned as a result of required additional work hours to the definition of compensation for purposes of calculating pensions in the County and Municipal Police/Firefighter Pension Plan. Currently such mandatory ordered additional w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB204 | Intro
25% | Before October 1, 2020, Delaware was 1 of only 3 states that did not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid. With the enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill 92 (150th General Assembly) (Chapter 187 of Volume 82 of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB278 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that a train or light engine used to move freight by railroad have a crew of at least 2 individuals. Violation of this statute subjects the railroad to a $500 fine for a first offense, and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB168 | Intro
25% | Substitute 1 to HB 168 applies the lodging tax to short-term rentals and requires an accommodations intermediary to obtain an occupational license and pay an annual licensing fee of $25.00. This bill defines an accommodations intermediary as a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 168 |
| DE | HB258 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act removes domestic service workers from the definition of employee in Chapter 9, Title 19 of the Delaware Code pertaining to minimum wage. A domestic service worker who otherwise qualifies as an employee is entitled to a minimum w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
To House Labor Committee |
| DE | SB196 | Intro
25% | This legislation establishes a voluntary certification program for 24/7 Emergent Physician Care Centers and is designed to help Delawareans chose the right level of walk-in, medical care. The importance of 24/7 Physician Care Centers in the delivery ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB167 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 167. Like House Bill No. 167, this Act establishes school resource officer units to fund school resources officers in all Delaware public schools. Specifically, this Act funds at least 1 school resource off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
