| HB191 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB307 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill for Senate Bill No. 307 clarifies the meaning of custom fabrication as first defined in Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill No. 102 in the 152nd General Assembly. That substitute bill modified the relationship between custom fabr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT |
| SB151 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151. Like Senate Bill No. 151, this Act requires included facilities to disclose information related dementia care services in the form determined by the Department of Health and Social Services, and it es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 11:00 am]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB403 | Engross
50% | This Act transfers the sections pertaining to assessment functions and the New Castle County Board of Assessment Review from the subchapter governing the functions of the Department of Land Use to the subchapter governing the functions of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| SB265 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| SB228 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 228. This Act achieves the intent of Senate Bill No. 228 by providing an exception to the general prohibition against semiautomatic pistols that have the ability to accept detachable ammunition magazines t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SCR170 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution commends the Food Bank of Delaware for its contributions toward ending hunger and resolving the root causes of poverty in the State of Delaware through its increased statewide impact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR171 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors the National Conference of State Legislatures, and its members, leadership, and staff, past and present, for its outstanding work as it prepares to mark 50 years of service to the Delaware General Assembly and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SB304 | Engross
50% | This Act makes changes to nonacademic training requirements for school district and charter school personnel to help ensure that mandatory trainings are relevant to student needs and based on best practices. While nonacademic mandatory trainings are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SCR163 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution designates May 27, 2024, as Brain Cancer Awareness Day in the State of Delaware. Brain Cancer Awareness Day brings attention to the experiences of individuals affected by brain cancer and empowers them to share their storie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR160 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates the month of May 2024 as "Lyme Disease Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SJR6 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SCR172 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes May 23, 2024, as Stop the Bleed Day in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HCR138 | Engross
50% | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the month of May as Stroke Awareness Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HCR144 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes June 6, 2024 as the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied Troops landed at Normandy during WWII.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB110 | Engross
50% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB386 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act revises the definition of massage establishment by repealing the exemption for all business establishments licensed under other chapters of Title 24. This exemption allows a massage practitioner to work in a licensed cosmetology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| HB382 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB292 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the statute on disclosure of pupil records to ensure compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and improve information sharing between educational institutions and programs operating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB286 | Engross
50% | This Act codifies the Delaware Hispanic Commission (Commission). The Commission was created by former Governor Jack Markell in Executive Order Number 28 to combine and streamline the duties of the former Governors Council on Hispanic Affairs and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB293 | Engross
50% | The Delaware Fair Housing Act, Chapter 46 of Title 6, and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Chapter 51 of Title 25, both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 2 ABSENT |
| SB287 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies the Auditor of Accounts duties and powers by amending § 2901 of Title 29 to define audit to include performance audits, and by amending §§ 2906 and 2909 of Title 29 to change "postaudit" to "audit." This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB295 | Engross
50% | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Labor Committee |
| SB289 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SCR156 | Engross
50% | This resolution requests the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to study and issue a report assessing the home care industry in Delaware. The DMMA is requested to use specified home care codes for their report and conduct various analyses. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SB296 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the Delaware Antitrust Act (DAA) (Chapter 21, Title 6 of the Code) to provide indirect purchasers who have been harmed by violations of the Delaware Antitrust Act the ability to sue for damages. Indirect purchasers of a product or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| 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 |
| SB11 | Engross
50% | This is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 11. Like Senate Bill No. 11, this Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SB275 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB13 | Engross
50% | Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB150 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 150. Like Senate Bill No. 150, this Act requires included facilities have sufficient staff to meet the needs of each resident and requires dementia care services training for staff. This Act differs from S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB273 | Engross
50% | This Act legalizes the sale and distribution of raw milk and products derived from raw milk by dairy producers directly to consumers for human consumption. This Act also removes the unused definitions of Delaware fresh milk and northeastern fresh mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 2 ABSENT |
| SB169 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB326 | Engross
50% | This is a substitute for House Bill No. 326.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| SB216 | Engross
50% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| SB281 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| HB379 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| HB200 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB274 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB238 | Engross
50% | This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB332 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| SB269 | Engross
50% | 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 human being or domestic animal while running at large, and dogs that are designated as dangerous or potenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB237 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB277 | Engross
50% | This Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
