| HB232 | Pass | This Act would both raise the jurisdictional limit of the Justice of the Peace Court to $25,000 and allow Justice of the Peace to consider claims in excess of the jurisdictional limit where the underlying matter involves a commercial tenancy and poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB351 | Pass | Prior to the pandemic occasioned by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), approximately 500 initial unemployment claims were filed in Delaware each week. Between March 15 and May 30, 2020, the Department of Labor received over 100,000 initial claims, bri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB335 | Pass | This Act amends Delawares probate code by adding a new section to provide restricted access to a decedents safe deposit box located in a financial institution and held in the decedents sole name, for the limited purpose of retrieving the decedents la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB353 | Pass | This Act would ensure that employers are not charged for the benefit wages of employees who they had to terminate, furlough, or lay off due to the economic shutdown needed to respond to the COVID-19 public health crisis. The intention of the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB350 | Pass | This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the persons official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB237 | Pass | This Act eliminates the requirement that movie theaters selling alcohol have video cameras in each auditorium and the requirement that an employee must pass through each auditorium during a movie showing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB331 | Pass | This bill deletes an unnecessary restriction relating to amending the Sussex County budget. No similar provision is applicable to the Kent or New Castle County budget process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB334 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 33 of Title 12 and (i) amends section 3330 by adding subsections (c) and (d)to make explicit in subsection (a) of section 3330 the applicability dates that were intended to be carried over from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB355 | Pass | This Act creates the 17-person Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Council to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health and ensures the Council will satisfy the requirements of Title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-4(...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB269 | Pass | Under the current language of Section 2.301, it is unclear what constitutes a "term" when computing term limits and determining a potential candidate's eligibility when they have previously filled a vacancy on the Council. By adding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB297 | Pass | This Act amends the City of Seaford's Charter (Charter) as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB345 | Pass | Due to the public health emergency caused by COVID-19, several legislative task forces and committees have not been able to fulfill the reporting requirements of the task forces or committees enabling legislation and need additional time to complete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB318 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a curriculum on the Holocaust and genocide for students in grades 6 through 12. Teaching the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides helps cultivate the spirit of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB214 | Pass | This Act supports veterinarians in their effort to protect people from rabies and to ensure the welfare of animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Pass | This Act requires statutorily designated health providers to provide medical certifications of death, for death certificates, electronically and for the death certificates to be electronically filed with the Delaware Vital Events Registration System ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB348 | Pass | House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 348 differs from HB 348 in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB349 | Pass | This bill codifies portions of the Second and Nineteenth Modifications of the Governor's Declaration of State of Emergency due to COVID-19 concerning food and drink establishments. Food and drink establishments suffered great losses since March, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB343 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB344 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB341 | Pass | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB352 | Pass | This Act extends provisions in the First and Twentieth Modifications to the Declaration of a State of Emergency due to a Public Health Threat which authorize the Delaware Secretary of Labor to issue emergency rules amending the Delaware Unemployment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB263 | Pass | This Act requires that individual, group, and State employee insurance plans cap the amount an individual must pay for insulin prescriptions at $100 a month and must include at least 1 formulation of insulin on the lowest tier of the drug formulary d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB347 | Pass | This Act continues in effect a provision contained in the Sixth Modification of the Declaration of a State of emergency for the State of Delaware Due to a Public Health Threat issued on March 24, 2020 which allows the Director of Management and Budge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB346 | Pass | This Act provides for voting by mail for the 2020 primary and general elections and special elections held under the provisions of Chapter 73 of Title 15 due to the emergency caused by COVID-19, a highly contagious virus. Voting by mail is an alterna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB301 | Pass | This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaireds (DVI) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB202 | Pass | This bill creates a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to utilize external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and to punish these motorists by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB275 | Pass | This bill permits the owner of a beer garden or food establishment to permit leashed dogs on licensed outdoor patios of food establishments and in beer gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB152 | Pass | In 2014, the General Assembly created an ignition interlock device program under §§ 4177C and 4177G of Title 21 of the Delaware Code (IID program). The IID program provides individuals whose license or driving privileges have been revoked following...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB212 | Pass | This bill defines industrial landfill in conformity with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Controls Regulations Governing Solid Waste. This bill also establishes a height restriction, or vertical limit, for an industrial landfill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB264 | Pass | This Act represents one of the recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54. This Act revises the process by which the New Castle County tax rate for owners of real property in municipalities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB273 | Pass | This Act makes changes to the States budget and fiscal procedures. Specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB250 | Pass | This Act is a recommendation of the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB87 | Pass | This Act enables Kent County to establish regulations regarding property maintenance and penalties for violations of said regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB178 | Pass | This Act reconciles discrepancies between § 8705 of Title 9 of the Delaware Code and § 2903 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, clarifying that all taxes assessed against real estate by Kent or Sussex Counties are governed by § 8705 of Title 9 and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HJR9 | Pass | This Joint Resolution vacates the parkland dedication for Tax Parcel No. 19-009.00-011 ("the Property"), removing the restrictions on permitted uses for public parks, held in public trust as provided in the common law, including the restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HJR7 | Pass | This Joint Resolution vacates the parkland dedication for ± .22 acres of Tax Parcel No. 19-009.00-015, as depicted in the exhibit that accompanies this Joint Resolution, thereby removing the restrictions on permitted uses for public parks, held ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HJR8 | Pass | This Joint Resolution vacates the parkland dedication for ± .31 acres of Tax Parcel No. 07-039.30-002 (the Property), as depicted in the exhibit that accompanies this Joint Resolution, thereby removing the restrictions on permitted uses for publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB118 | Pass | This Act enables Sussex County to establish ordinances, rules, and regulations regarding property maintenance and penalties for violations of said ordinances, rules, and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB290 | Pass | This Act amends the Fiscal Year 2020 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (1) reauthorize Appoquinimink School District project local shares; (2) redistribute Community Reinvestment Funds from the African American Heritage Institute to the Peoples Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB241 | Pass | This bill expands the Employment First Oversight Commission by adding the Director of the Division for the Visually Impaired as a member, the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and other councils, committees, agencies, org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB77 | Pass | This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB78 | Pass | This Act aims to make the robbery section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act deletes the carjacking sections and embeds them within the existing robbery statutes to remove duplication from the code. Under this Act, robbery in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB56 | Pass | This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB239 | Pass | This Act prohibits a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination by a health care practitioner or professional on an individual who is anesthetized or unconscious. This Act provides exceptions and they are if informed consent is provided, the examination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB65 | Pass | This Bill enables the use of roof or ground mounted solar systems on privately owned residential dwellings by making covenants or other restrictions that effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB113 | Pass | This bill clarifies that Delaware law enforcement may enter into agreements to provide mutual assistance to other jurisdictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB119 | Pass | The bill expands the qualified agencies authorized to receive grants approved by the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council to include non-profit corporations, such as the Diamond State Sustainability Corporation (DSSC), approved by Public Service Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB220 | Pass | This Act adds coverage for Medication Assisted Treatment ("MAT") for drug and alcohol dependencies to the mental health parity laws for health insurance. This Act requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for prescription medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
