Delaware Representative Michael Smith [R]

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DEHB287Intro
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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.
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 14 On Its Merits
DESB215Intro
25%
This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB303Intro
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.
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2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee
DESB216Intro
25%
This Act increases the civil penalties for violations of the statutes in Title 16, Chapter 11 related to Long Term Care Facilities and the regulations adopted pursuant to it. For violations that the Department determines pose a serious threat to the ...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DEHB312Engross
50%
School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inf...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DEHB24Engross
50%
This Act creates a new charitable donation option on the Delaware income tax return. It allows taxpayers to direct a donation to the SL24: Unlocke the Light Foundation out of their state tax refund or in addition to the payment of owed tax. The Found...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
DESCR136Engross
50%
This Resolution recognizes April 2024 as "Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
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2024-03-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB166Engross
50%
This Act allows for the delivery of alcoholic liquors from a restaurant, brewpub, tavern, taproom, or other entity with a valid on-premise license. In addition, this Act provides that the acts of a licensed consumer delivery permittee or a delivery d...
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2024-03-26
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DEHB345Engross
50%
This Act requires Medicaid coverage for additional postpartum visits with a doula upon recommendation of a licensed practitioner or clinician.
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2024-03-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
DESCR135Engross
50%
This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims Monday, October 28, 2024, as National First Responders Day in the State of Delaware.
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2024-03-26
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DEHB270Intro
25%
This Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case,...
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2024-03-21
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 270
DEHB15PassThis 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...
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2024-03-21
Signed by Governor
DEHB340Intro
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.
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2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee
DESCR128Engross
50%
This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Christian Holy Week and Passover in the State of Delaware.
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2024-03-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DEHB149Intro
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...
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2024-03-20
Not Enough Signatures to Release
DEHCR95Engross
50%
This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the month of March 2024 as Multiple Sclerosis Month in the State of Delaware.
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2024-03-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB259Intro
25%
This Act facilitates the interstate and intrastate shipping and delivery of alcoholic liquors.
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2024-03-19
Motion to Release Failed
DEHB286Engross
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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.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee
DEHB289Intro
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...
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2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB16Intro
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.
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2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee
DESB202Engross
50%
For claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act inc...
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2024-03-14
Amendment HA 1 to SB 202 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DESCR123Engross
50%
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Ireland.
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2024-03-14
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DEHB22Intro
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 ...
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2024-03-13
Tabled in Committee
DEHB344Intro
25%
This bill seeks to correct a current bias in Delawares election law impacting the outcome of countless races throughout the state.
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2024-03-13
To House Administration Committee
DEHB321Intro
25%
This act increases from $110 to $330 each personal exemption credit for certain lower income earning individuals.
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2024-03-12
Not Worked in Committee
DESCR122Engross
50%
This resolution designates the week of March 11 through March 15, 2024, as Civic Learning Week in the State of Delaware to encourage schools and civic organizations to hold educational programs regarding civic duty and urge Delawareans to reflect upo...
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2024-03-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DEHB342Intro
25%
This Act creates a Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry in which an applicant may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a firearm. An individual on the Registry may request removal from the Registry no sooner than 3...
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2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB21Intro
25%
This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. The OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investigate and prevent ...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Executive Committee
DEHB5Intro
25%
The States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
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2024-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB203Intro
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...
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2024-03-07
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB330Intro
25%
This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
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2024-03-07
To House Administration Committee
DEHCR86Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes the Easterseals/CAI Volleyball Challenge occurring March 9 at William Penn High School and April 20 at Delaware State University, an event that raises funds for an organization providing services and support to Delawareans ...
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2024-03-07
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB264Intro
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.
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2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
DEHB306Intro
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.
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2024-03-06
Motion to Release Failed
DEHB7Intro
25%
This Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. Th...
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2024-03-05
Stricken in House
DEHB320Intro
25%
This is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment to constitutionally authorize 10 days of early in-person voting in Delaware. Additionally, at least 21 in-person early voting places, with 1 being located in each State Senate District, are required...
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2024-03-05
To House Administration Committee
DESB201Intro
25%
Of the 41 states with a state income tax, 27 states fully exempt military retirement pay from state income taxes and 12 states partially exempt military retirement pay.
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2024-02-29
Amendment SA 1 to SB 201 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB277Intro
25%
This Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
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2024-02-29
Amendment HA 1 to HB 277 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB291Intro
25%
This Act requires that a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Dep...
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2024-02-29
Amendment HA 1 to HB 291 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB307Intro
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.
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2024-02-29
To House Education Committee
DEHB300Intro
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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...
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2024-02-26
To House Health & Human Development Committee
DESB217Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee
DEHB305PassThis Act amends the Fiscal Year 2023 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (1) list the allocations of the School Construction Market Pressure Contingency Fund and clarify that funds cannot exceed the CN scope. Further, this Act amends Fiscal Year 202...
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2024-01-31
Signed by Governor
DESCR112Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes and celebrates the Chinese New Year 2024.
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2024-01-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DESCR111Engross
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This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 4, 2024, as "USO Day" in the State of Delaware and honors USO Delaware for its important and inspiring work supporting military members and their families.
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2024-01-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote
DEHB244Intro
25%
This Act directs phased in unit funding for every public high school in the state to have a full-time athletic trainer.
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2024-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee
DESB200Intro
25%
This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
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2024-01-24
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DEHB233Intro
25%
This Act raises the minimum income to be subject to income tax from $2,000 to $2,500.
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2024-01-23
Motion to Release Failed
DEHB265Intro
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.
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2024-01-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable
DEHCR79Engross
50%
This concurrent resolution hereby designates January 23, 2024 as Maternal Health Awareness Day in the State of Delaware.
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2024-01-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NOT VOTING
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