| HB228 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires for a motion of the Commission or for an application by a public utility relating to a public utility’s existing or proposed rate, or a proposed change thereof, that the public utility show that the rate involved is just and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB246 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes a “Yellow Dot” medical information alert program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Laid On Table in House |
| HB241 | Pass | This Bill amends the provisions of Section 322(a), Title 22 of the Delaware Code to permit any of the following members of the zoning board of adjustment to delegate their duties to their authorized agents: 1) the chief engineer of the street and sew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB152 | Pass | This Bill requires operators of three-wheeled motorcycles to take appropriate knowledge and skills tests and obtain a motorcycle endorsement on their driver license. Persons who take a motorcycle endorsement skills test on a three-wheeled motorcycle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB165 | Pass | This act would, after the April 2012 regular municipal election, increase the term lengths for the Mayor and City Council of the City of Dover from two (2) years to four (4) years. As an initial matter, the Mayor and Council members elected in the Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB96 | Pass | This bill updates the code to define eligible members of the Parks and Recreation Council appointed by the Governor. When the Parks and Recreation Council was created, the former Recreation Advisory Council was eliminated; this legislation would elim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB250 | Pass | This bill makes several technical changes to the reapportionment legislation passed during the First Session of the 146th General Assembly. The corrections include: 1) clarifying road names, nonvisible boundaries, and direction designations; 2) adjus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB135 | Pass | The bill raises the “maximum fine” threshold that gives a defendant an automatic right to transfer a criminal case from a Justice of the Peace Court or Alderman’s Court to the Court of Common Pleas from $15 to $100. It would leave u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB134 | Pass | This Act removes incarceration as a possible sentence for certain less serious offenses in chapters 41 and 42 of the Motor Vehicle Code including Following Too Closely ( 4123), Unlawful Use of a Controlled-Access Highway ( 4126), Speeding ( 4169), Ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-30
Signed by Governor |
| HR26 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution celebrates the week of January 29h through February 5th as Catholic Schools Week in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB80 | Pass | This Bill raises the annual assessment paid by all insurance companies licensed in the State of Delaware from $550 in effect since 1995, to $750. The change of assessment will enable the Delaware Insurance Fraud prevention Bureau to continue its oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | This Bill would confirm that bicycles may legally operate when proceeding straight in right-turn-only lanes, as well as when operated upon the paved shoulders of the state’s roads and highways. Because many of these shoulders are also used as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Signed by Governor |
| HCR31 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution proclaims February as Children’s Dental Health Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the provision requiring that participants in the Delaware Healthy Children Program pay a premium to participate, while allowing the Department of Health and Social Services to consider instituting minimal co-payments for health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HCR29 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes the Division for the Visually Impaired and promotes equal employment opportunity in hiring by the State of Delaware for blind and visually impaired individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR32 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution designates the week of February 12-18, 2012 as “Children of Alcoholics Week” and requests that the Governor issue a proclamation calling upon all State agencies and the people of the State of Delaware to observe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2013 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Introduced in House and assigned to Capital Infrastructure Committee |
| HCR28 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution proclaims the week of January 22-28, 2012 as School Choice Week in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HJR10 | Pass | This Resolution recognizes Major General Francis D. Vavala in his capacity as the Chairman of the National Guard Association of the United States for his national leadership in gaining passage of the Empowerment Act. This historic legislation will re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
Signed by Governor |
| HCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the week of January 22, 2012, through January 28, 2012, as Nurse Anesthetists Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB70 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act increases the minimum fine (from $100 to $250) for purchasing or providing alcohol to a person under the age of 21 and makes performance of community service mandatory for such an offense. The Act also establishes a civil cause of action whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds attendance at education classes, provided such class was started prior to the revocation of the drivers’ license, to permitted use of a conditional license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| SCR27 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating February 6, 2012 as “Ronald Reagan Day” in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB160 | Pass | This Act amends the Uniformed Controlled Substances Act by clarifying that the definition of “designer drugs” covers those synthetic analogues of controlled substances that are made and distributed for drug use but due to their novelty ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires all regulations to be reviewed every five years to determine if the regulation should be amended, repealed, or left unchanged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-24
To House Administration Committee |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill eliminates the continuing education requirements for a real estate broker, associate broker, or salesperson who has continuously held that type of license in Delaware for 40 years or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-24
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| SCR28 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes February 2012 as Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-24
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HJR9 | Pass | This concurrent resolution registers the concern of the members over the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed closing of Delaware’s single mail processing center and urges that the Hares Corner facility remain open.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill freezes the minimum percentage of renewable energy (Renewable Portfolio Standard - RPS) a retail-electricity supplier or municipal electric company must provide to customers at the proportion achieved as of January 1, 2012. The intent of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-19
To House Energy Committee |
| HCR27 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proclaims the month of February, 2012 as African American History Month and requests the Governor issue a proclamation calling upon all State agencies and the people of the State of Delaware to observe the month of February...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB135 | Enroll
Sine Die | School Based Health Centers exist in 28 Delaware high schools and provide convenient, confidential, and effective health services to students. Parents must consent each year to their child’s use of the SBHC. The federal government is requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| HCR26 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable Jack A. Markell, Governor of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the age requirement for compulsory school attendance in Delaware from 16 to 18 years of age. The age increase is phased in over a two-year period; accordingly, there is a one-year interim period where the compulsory school attendan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is a result of the work of the School Discipline Task Force. The bill simplifies the mandatory report requirements for schools, ensuring that the most serious offenses shall be reported to law enforcement while giving schools discretion to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-17
Stricken |
| HR15 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the CAI/Easter Seals Volleyball Challenge on March 9-11, 2012, an event that raises funds for an organization providing services and support to people with disabilities or special needs and their families in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-10
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB233 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires lobbyists to disclose to the Public Integrity Commission the name of every nonprofit organization, community association and trade group incorporated in the State and/or having activities in Delaware of which the lobbyist is a counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-05
To House Administration Committee |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would require and achieve greater and more complete public disclosure and reporting by a public officer, particularly as it relates to family members employed by any State agency, any organization, any school district, or any entity that rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-05
To House Administration Committee |
| HB208 | Pass | This Bill renames the Women’s Treatment Center after Representative Hazel D. Plant, in honor of her long and dedicated service to the State of Delaware, and her special interest in women’s issues and the corrections system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB87 | Pass | This Bill requires the Department of Justice to establish and provide standardized FOIA request forms. These forms shall be used by all public bodies. The uniformity should help provide prompt compliance and less questions at the front end of the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB153 | Pass | This Act revises the existing scholarship program for library and archival professionals seeking their master’s degree to also permit scholarships for library and archives staff seeking a bachelor’s degree prior to or a doctoral degree af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-10-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB98 | Pass | Under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) it requires that private health plans cover evidence-based preventive services and immunization. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has recommended vaccinations, health scre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB58 | Pass | This Bill regulates conduct related to foreclosures in Delaware. Section 1 establishes the Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program in order to ensure homeowners have an opportunity to meet face-to-face with lender representatives...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB59 | Pass | This bill provides for an Office within the Division of Consumer Protection to identify mortgage foreclosure fraud, to reduce foreclosure, and to promote financial literacy. In addition, the Office will receive calls from borrowers in default and mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB42 | Pass | Sections 1-8 of this Bill provide that the Mortgage Rescue Fraud Protection Act in 6 Del. C. Chapter 24B will protect homeowners 60 days in default on their mortgage loans. Currently the protections are in effect after an action for foreclosure is fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB48 | Pass | This Act prohibits the use of a deceptive or fraudulent record, document, or statement to support an action to foreclose
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB50 | Veto | There are no substantive changes to the law created by this Bill. This Bill constitutes a clarification of the effect of the consumer law changes in House Substitute 1 for House Bill No. 247, enacted last year. Several sections in Chapter 25 of Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB57 | Pass | This Bill regulates conduct related to foreclosures in Delaware. Section 1 requires an affidavit of loss mitigation prior to a plaintiff seeking the entry of judgment in a foreclosure action in order to ensure homeowners are considered for loan modif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB137 | Pass | This Bill creates a moratorium on health insurance providers that charge higher cost sharing for different classification of prescription drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB197 | Pass | This Act provides that each civil or administrative penalty amount appropriated to the Community Environmental Project Fund will benefit the same community where the infraction or violation occurred that resulted in such penalty. A project benefits t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-09-14
Signed by Governor |
