| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill will save the State of Delaware money by having school board elections on the date of the general election and it will increase the voter turnout for school board elections. Currently, school board elections are held on the second Tuesday o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB214 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill requires that, beginning in the 2014-15 school year, Delaware public schools provide a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity weekly for all K-5 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
To House Education Committee |
| SCR42 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution honors the class of 2011-2012 Eagle Scouts for having attained the highest rank one can earn in the Boy Scouts of America. AUTHOR: Sen. Sorenson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB390 | Intro
Sine Die | The amendment extends the time for presenting claims against an estate when letters of testamentary or administration are granted. The letters are the first official publication of notice of death issued by the Register of Wills. Where there is an ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Introduced in House and assigned to Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB129 | Enroll
Sine Die | Coyotes are becoming more of a problem in Delaware as their population continues to increase. This Act would designate the coyote as wildlife which is not protected in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill provides that employees serving in security-related or high-risk positions may be eligible for hazardous duty pay. Those positions would be designated by the Chief Justice in accord with the needs of each court. Funding for this additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Stricken |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill removes expense payments and allocations from pension contribution compensation for elected officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HCR48 | Engross
Sine Die | SYNOPSIS This concurrent resolution recognizes June 7, 2012 as “Non-Profit Awareness Day” in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill revises the Delaware Charter School law to require that all charter school applications be submitted to local school boards for review and consideration. The bill requires local school boards to conduct a face-to-face meeting with the chart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Introduced in House and assigned to Education Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill codifies the common law and protects the secondary market for life insurance in Delaware. Courts in this state have consistently held that when an insurer rescinds a life insurance policy, the insurer must return the premiums that it has co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SR22 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Resolution designates June as “Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention Month” in Delaware and encourages the Department of Health and Social Services to research methods to prevent and raise awareness of eating disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB116 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill allows a nonresident farm owner, who owns but is not an occupant of a farm in this State containing 20 acres or more and where the science of husbandry is practiced, and the immediate members of the family of the nonresident farm owner to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB316 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a tax credit for furnishing broadband services to underserved and rural areas as defined by the Federal Internal Revenue Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Stricken |
| SB189 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 and Section 2 eliminate the apprenticeship equivalency exam (bypass exam) from the licensure process for plumbing and HVACR applicants. This exam is an unnecessary step in the licensure process as these applicants must take the standardized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET COMMITTEE (POLICY ANALYSIS & GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY)) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current law, the City of Wilmington has no representative on the Red Clay, Brandywine, Colonial, Christina and New Castle Vocational-Technical school boards expressly advocating for the City of Wilmington’s educational objectives. This Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates comprehensive requirements for the conducting of benefits managers’ audits. In particular, this bill establishes requirements regarding timing of audits, notice, consistent audit processes, audit reports, overpayment and under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| HB259 | Pass | This Act clarifies the enforcement of Delaware’s driving under the influence statute as it relates to the operation of off-highway-vehicles. Title 21, 4177(c)(4), defines the term “vehicle” to include “any off-highway vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB180 | Pass | This Bill would create a new license type known as a “Craft Distillery” which would enable entities to obtain a license to distill spirits. Delaware law currently allows for Farm Wineries and Microbreweries to manufacture limited quantiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB367 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would allow hunting on private property on Sundays after noon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB368 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the Department of Education to provide, in schools that offer health services to children at a School-Based Health Center (SBHC), consent forms that clearly permit a parent or guardian to exclude any health service or services that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB230 | Pass | This bill empowers the State Election Commissioner, in conjunction with municipalities’ boards of election, to reschedule municipal elections in cases of emergencies. It specifies a new procedure to resolve complaints that conduct contrary to l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes a Study Group on Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") for the purpose of studying and making recommendations for strengthening and expanding ADR in Delaware. The Study Group will be a multi-disciplinary body th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HJR13 | Pass | This Joint Resolution extends the reporting date of the Communications Tax Review Group from March 15, 2012, to May 1, 2013. It also requires an informal status update by June 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill changes the name of the Delaware Compensation Commission to the Delaware Salary Survey Commission. The salary recommendation report issued every four years is an advisory report which does not bind the Governor, the General Assembly, or the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds the requirement that veterinarian certify the duration of immunity of the rabies vaccine in addition to the date that revaccination is due according to the Compendium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Stricken |
| HB267 | Pass | This Act eliminates the 1935, $2,500 cap (33 Del. Laws, c. 72) on aggregate necessary travel expenses for all members of all three County governing bodies (raised to $5,000 for New Castle County Council only, in 71 Del. Laws, c. 401). The language pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows retired nurse volunteers to work under the direction of a licensed physician or dentist at Delaware medical clinics that provide free non-emergency medical care and limited dental services to low-income, uninsured adults ages 18 to 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes the Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. The Act prohibits an employer from terminating or taking any other disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency responder if such employee, when acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB176 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Bill redesignates the governing body of the Municipal Services Commission of the City of New Castle from “Board” to “Commission”, clarifies that the Commission can obtain private property within city limits for supplying a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
SS 1 for SB 176 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 39 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill waives the sovereign immunity defense as to the State and its political subdivisions, including school districts, for sexual abuse of a minor by an adult, provided, however, there must be a finding of gross negligence on the part of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB277 | Pass | This Act creates the criminal offense of home invasion as a new and separate crime in Delaware’s criminal code. Home invasion occurs when a person enters or remains unlawfully in someone else’s home, engages in or attempts to engage in ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB238 | Pass | This Bill simplifies the process for a military spouse applying for reinstatement of a professional license or permit with the Division of Professional Regulation within 2 years of the license or permit lapsing. It does not apply to a revoked or susp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB223 | Pass | This Act allows the use of electronic notices and documents in lieu of current requirements for the sending of insurance notices and documents. In order to send electronic notices and documents to another party the insurer must obtain the consent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB170 | Pass | This Act allows qualified individuals who are covered by Small Employer plans to continue their coverage at their own cost, for up to nine (9) months after termination of coverage. The provisions of this Act shall have no force or effect if the Healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB256 | Pass | This bill ensures that when a person fails to report a missing child and that child becomes a neglected child as a result of the failure to report, that person can be charged with the crime of endangering the welfare of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB193 | Pass | This Act creates a special license plate for members of the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB266 | Pass | This Bill removes a provision by which either the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the Deputy Administrator for the Justice of the Peace Court was required to verify the final disposition of a case before a previously paid fine could be refunded...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB280 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter for the Town of Newport by: 1.) eliminating the requirement that a resident of the Town of Newport must have paid all taxes to hold the office of Mayor or Commissioner; 2.) changing the date of the organizational meeting f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
| SCR38 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution continues to raise awareness that the month of May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would change the voting age as stated in the constitution to 18 as provided in the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, modernize the language, and remove the reasons for which a person may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
To House Administration Committee |
| HCR49 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution commends the Food Bank of Delaware for their contributions to the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR50 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the month of May as “Poppy Month” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HR34 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution proclaims May, 2012 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SCR41 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes the fight of Baby Avery Canahuati and the growing need to raise awareness about Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-17
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR47 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proclaims the week of May 20 to May 26, 2012 as “Teen Financial Awareness Week” and requests school districts in the State to educate their students about financial awareness skills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-16
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 15 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 6 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB161 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act establishes the crime of home invasion as a class A felony. The Act is premised on the belief that every person's home is their castle. No one should be permitted to enter someone else's home with a deadly weapon, or with another person with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB151 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill requires that the Director of Lotteries be notified by the Division of Child Support Enforcement that a person is delinquent in support payments. The Bill would require that that person’s prize winnings be sent to the Division to be a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-15
SS 1 for SB 151 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 1 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR45 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution thanks the Career and Technical Student Organizations for their presentation of geraniums. This concurrent resolution also extends continued success to the respective students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-15
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution proclaims May to be Community Action Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-15
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB157 | Pass | This Act limits the health insurance options to survivors of pensioners who are collecting survivor benefits effective on or after January 1, 2012 to only that survivor and any dependent children. Future spouses of survivors would not be eligible to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-15
Signed by Governor |
