| SB149 | Pass | When the Delaware estate tax was updated in 2009, the future of the federal estate tax was uncertain. As a consequence, Delaware’s estate tax contained many references regarding how it would apply in anticipation of various potential outcomes f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB96 | Pass | This legislation provides a process for use by Federally Qualified Health Centers to recruit dentists. A Provisional License is made available to a dentist who works for these particular health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB26 | Pass | This legislation provides a default procedure for equitably allocating the cost of estate taxes among beneficiaries of an estate. It replaces Delaware’s current apportionment statute, but retains its basic approach of apportioning estate taxes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB197 | Pass | In order to maintain racing purses that are competitive with other racetracks in the mid-Atlantic region, a racetrack licensed to conduct gaming operations needs the flexibility to reduce the number of racing days. This Act would permit a racetrack l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB139 | Pass | To reduce lead poisoning in Delaware, this Act requires the Department to establish regulations for lead-based paint activities performed by renovators and dust-wipe technicians in; and provides administrative authority to seek criminal penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB140 | Pass | Recently the Department of Health and Social Services promulgated rules for the regulation and accreditation of medical facilities that perform invasive medical procedures. This bill builds on that effort by allowing a complaint from an employee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB125 | Pass | This bill is the result of a recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee relating to the sunset review of the Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority. This bill extends the sunset date for the Trust Fund for an additional five (5) year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB113 | Pass | 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] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HJR6 | Pass | This House Joint Resolution re-establishes a Communications Tax Review Group to study and make recommendations for a modernized, competitively neutral tax system that encourages investment in broadband networks and eliminates the disparate tax treatm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | The Delaware State Police regulate scrap metal processors by requiring them to be licensed and to report electronically the receipt of certain articles which may turn out to be stolen so that they can be recovered by law enforcement agencies and retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB78 | Pass | This legislation establishes a Wetlands Advisory Committee to develop comprehensive recommendations for conserving and restoring non-tidal wetlands in Delaware, including evaluating national best practices and standards, evaluating incentive-based pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB116 | Pass | In order to maintain racing purses that are competitive with other racetracks in the mid-Atlantic region, a racetrack licensed to conduct gaming operations needs the flexibility to reduce the number of racing days. This Act would permit a racetrack l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB117 | Pass | This bill permits the Delaware National Guard Counterdrug unit to receive equitably shared funds to finance law enforcement functions under the National Guard Mutual Assistance Counterdrug Activities Compact. Functions may include, but not be limited...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB121 | Pass | This closes a technical loophole in the Delaware Code. Currently, the Department of Health and Social Services has minimal authority to act against an unlicensed healthcare agency or facility operating in the state. This would allow the Department to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB86 | Pass | This Act conveys 1.57 acres of land along US 13 in New Castle County, which is surplus to state needs, to the Town of Smyrna for future public use, including but not limited to a water tower, well, and water treatment facility and/or for a fire or po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB122 | Pass | The amendment to Section 49A-120(a) adds a new subsection clarifying that no person may refuse to accept an otherwise valid durable personal power of attorney on the sole basis that it varies from the form set forth in Section 49A-301. The amendment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB93 | Pass | This bill creates a process for Kent County to establish a stormwater maintenance district and for the collection and use of stormwater maintenance fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB194 | Pass | This Legislation aligns the penalty for non-compliance with the non-nurse midwives law and regulations with the penalty for practicing medicine without a license. It imposes civil and/or criminal penalties for violations of existing law. The increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB94 | Pass | This bill improves and clarifies the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s process and criteria for issuing permits to handle or possess protected wildlife, finfish or shellfish for scientific, education or propagation pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB38 | Pass | This bill changes the membership of the Jockeys Health and Welfare Benefit Board to include, among the six-member board, one active Delaware jockey and one retired Delaware jockey participating in the benefit program rather than two active Delaware j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB124 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and makes several amendments to Title 29 relating to the Division of the Public Advocate. The Public Advocate shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB80 | Pass | This Act amends the corporate limits of the Town of Camden by removing/de-annexing a certain parcel of approximately 7.5 acres currently owned by the Camden-Wyoming Little League from the corporate limits of the Town of Camden and by adding/annexing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB157 | Pass | This legislation allows the Secretary of Agriculture to issue administrative inspection warrants for the inspection of private property, other than racino properties, where race horses are stabled or otherwise located to determine compliance with Del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB177 | Pass | This bill authorizes the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission to impose a fine for a violation of its regulations up to $10,000 or the amount of the purse for the race in which the violation occurred, whichever is greater. Presently in the Code, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB46 | Pass | This act would authorize physicians licensed in other states and countries who travel with out-of-state sports teams to Delaware for sporting events to provide medical care to those teams, coaches, and their families during those events. By doing so,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB107 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and revises the definition of “Employee” under the State Pension Plan so that individuals appointed by the Governor to a board, council or commission after June...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB144 | Pass | This Bill updates the State of Delaware’s False Claims and Reporting Act to make it compliant with the requirements of Section 1909 of the Social Security Act. Section 1909 of the Social Security Act provides a financial incentive for States to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB144 | Pass | This Act clarifies and reaffirms the General Assembly’s intent that the Division of Revenue has a single set of rules found in Chapter 5 of Title 30 governing how it administers, enforces, and collects State taxes. Before 1992, the laws declari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB111 | Pass | This amendment improves transparency and accountability of the Board of Directors of sewer and water authorities by making the members of those authorities directly accountable to the respective Town Councils of the Towns that appointed the Board Mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB30 | Pass | This Bill amends Chapter 41 of Title 24 of the Delaware Code, which will go into effect on August 6, 2013. The grandfathering provision, Section 4108(d), is revised to require either not fewer than 250 home inspections in Delaware for compensation or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB182 | Pass | This bill provides the Family Court with discretion to determine whether it is appropriate to designate juvenile offenders who are under age fourteen on the date of the offense or who were over age fourteen on the date of the offense but did not comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB166 | Pass | The first two sections of this Bill transfer authority for issuing new regulations from the Advisory Council of the Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program to the Program itself. This is consistent with the authority of other State agencies an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB105 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. The bill provides that the Executive Director of the Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program no longer has to submit a financial disclosure report to the Public Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB36 | Pass | This Act increases certain minimum sentences required for the use of firearms by persons prohibited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB88 | Pass | This bill provides for continuity of care for patients transported from a facility in another state to Delaware by allowing respiratory therapists licensed in another jurisdiction to practice in Delaware for the limited purpose of interstate transpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB147 | Pass | This bill encourages the sharing of best practices by requiring that charter schools include innovation information in their annual reports and that the Secretary of Education report on how successes at charter schools can be implemented throughout D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB148 | Pass | This bill promotes transparency in government spending relating to competitive grants administered by the Department of Education by requiring that the Department publish on its website the eligibility requirements, criteria and successful applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB87 | Pass | The bill adds a provision giving a licensed geologist or licensed psychologist the option to place his or her license on inactive status at the time of renewal instead of allowing the license to lapse. This bill would bring the Board of Geologists an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB47 | Pass | New Subchapter XV, for which Sections 8 and 9 of this legislation provide, authorizes the creation of public benefit corporations. A public benefit corporation is a for-profit entity which is managed not only for the pecuniary interests of its stockh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB145 | Pass | This bill facilitates emergency response by infrastructure companies when it is necessary for them to temporarily provide out-of-State resources and personnel during a State of emergency declared by the Governor or the President of the United States,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB153 | Pass | This bill involves the proceeds from the sale of property seized due to violations of Title 4, Chapter 11, such as illegally transported liquor. The bill raises the limit of proceeds which the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement can retain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB11 | Pass | The primary objective of this legislation is to clarify some of the existing wording of Title 29, Chapter 79A. Cemetery Registration and Distressed Cemetery Fund. The proposed legislation would make the objectives of the Cemetery Board lucid by clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB128 | Pass | This bill modernizes the language of the statute to conform to the current practice of the Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB54 | Pass | An Act To Amend Chapter 33, Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Unemployment Compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB106 | Pass | The Bill adds to the Board’s authority to require all persons licensed in plumbing and HVACR services to display the words “Licensed Plumber” and/or “Licensed HVACR” on their vehicles along with their license number in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB142 | Pass | The Act caps the penalty for failure to file a tax return at 50% of the amount of tax required to be shown on the unfiled return (75% in the case of fraudulent returns).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB62 | Pass | This bill would allow farmers to register their trucks, semitrailers, and trailers with an “FT” tag at the reduced registration fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB141 | Pass | This bill is intended to ensure that chiropractors delivering chiropractic services in the state of Delaware are subject to the jurisdiction of the Delaware Board of Chiropractic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB52 | Pass | The Harrington Charter Changes involve changes to the City’s Borrowing Powers. The aggregate amount of debt is being changed from 15 percent to 25 percent of the total assessed value of all non-tax exempt real property within the City. The cap ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB126 | Pass | This Bill adds the requirement of Continued Professional Competency for license renewals, provides for retired engineer status, requires licensure renewal by the date of expiration of the current license, adds violations of the Act and the failure to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
