| DE | SB207 | Enroll
75% | This Act eliminates the sunset provision contained in Chapter 170, Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware related to xylazine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB419 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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] | 2024-05-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | 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] | 2024-05-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB86 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a right to counsel for indigent parents in DSCYF custody proceedings. Parent representation will primarily be provided by a legal services entity contracted with the Family Court, but may also be provided by the Office of Defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB275 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB281 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB282 | Enroll
75% | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB300 | Intro
25% | This Substitute Bill requires the Department of Health and Social Services to maintain a public registry of assisted living facilities that are accredited and/or certified to provide memory care services by an approved independent accrediting organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 300 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB16 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SB259 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB279 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-22
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB288 | Intro
25% | The Act allows the Kent County Levy Court to impose a lodging tax not greater than 3% in Kent County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB289 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Amendment SA 1 to SB 289 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB280 | Intro
25% | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB300 | Intro
25% | This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB301 | Intro
25% | This Act requires public universities in this state to provide access to medication for the termination of pregnancy and emergency contraception. The medication and contraception must be provided on-site, but consultation to provide them may be perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB394 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB405 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the requirement that a juvenile can only be referred to the the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program a second or subsequent time if the juveniles prior referral was for a different offense than the second referral, allowing a juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB302 | Intro
25% | This Act allows a licensed brewery-pub located within the premises of a public golf courses to apply to the Commissioner for a license to sell alcoholic beverages to patrons of the golf course if the brewery-pub and public golf course share common ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB402 | Intro
25% | This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB305 | Intro
25% | This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB283 | Engross
50% | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB306 | Intro
25% | This Act makes technical changes and updates to the Delaware workplace safety program. Under current law, qualifying employers who pay $3,161 or more in annual workers' compensation premiums may be eligible for lower insurance premiums under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB282 | Engross
50% | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB286 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB87 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Amendment SA 2 to HB 87 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB200 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB20 | Enroll
75% | The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB19 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a background special license plate for the United Way of Delaware Pride Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB14 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a new license for the use of trotlines in commercial crabbing. This Act prohibits a person from possessing a commercial crab pot license and trotline license at the same time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB236 | Engross
50% | This bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB349 | Engross
50% | This bill codifies that the Superior Court Veterans Treatment Court is a qualified rehabilitation program under § 4177D of Title 21 of the Delaware Code for persons seeking to have their driver's licenses reinstated after a DUI. This Act makes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB334 | Enroll
75% | This Act makes several technical and logistical corrections to the Delaware Marijuana Control Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| DE | HB322 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes the Delaware Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage and Culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB245 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB373 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Chapter 49 of Title 29 to enable the Office of Highway Safety to solicit and receive subscriptions, donations, and other funds from individuals or organizations for the purpose of implementing highway safety programs and projects that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB272 | Engross
50% | Pharmacists in Delaware provide some of the same medical services as physicians, advance practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, including immunizations. The General Assembly has recently added to the services that pharmacists may provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
