| HB276 | Veto | At least 36 states allow for the medical use of marijuana. However, federal firearm laws have not kept pace and currently prohibit an individual who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance from possessing or purchasing a firear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-27
Vetoed by Governor |
| SB14 | Pass | This bill provides a mechanism to grant pension increases to retired State Employees, retired Judges, and retired New State police. This bill dedicates a minimum of 2.33% of payroll to be deposited annually to the Post Retirement Fund. This bill also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB432 | Pass | This Act prohibits minor parents from executing a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB476 | Pass | This Act requires all law-enforcement agencies to remove all Gold Alert notifications of missing persons from all social media and all websites within 72 hours of being notified that the missing person has been located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB337 | Pass | This Act makes it easier to properly clear title to real property after a person dies if the person held real property jointly with the right of survivorship. With more frequency, a deceased person may die as a resident in a county that is different ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB318 | Pass | This Act establishes a period of time when a license for a nonpublic school teacher, specialist, or administrator employed by this State and for a public education employee, i.e., a Department of Education employee, adult education employee, and pris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB401 | Pass | This Act amends Title 21 to specify the requirements for an applicant to obtain or renew a motor vehicle dealer license and aligns the requirements with other state licensing requirements. The current law only requires the applicant to show they have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB314 | Pass | This bill clarifies House Bill 307 from 2018 by making it clear that a 6-month or 12-month mandatory commitment to Level 5 incarceration or institutional confinement for a juvenile only applies to adjudications of delinquency for the charge of Robber...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB438 | Pass | This Act is part of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission ("DNHRQAC") and the recommendations that JLOSC approved during its...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB457 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA"). As part of JLOSC's review of DIAA, JLOSC recommended the follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB348 | Pass | This Act provides nationally certified occupational therapists with a salary supplement for receiving national certification. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing language to the standards of the Delaware Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB293 | Pass | House Bill No. 293 requires that meetings of public bodies that are open to the public must provide an opportunity for public comment. Meetings of a public body of the General Assembly are excluded from the requirement to provide an opportunity for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB376 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Delaware Burn Camp Corporation created by Subchapter VII to determine its own Board of Directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB267 | Pass | The bill requires that third-party cost-sharing assistance utilized by patients is applied toward the enrollee's health insurance deductibles and any out-of-pocket limits. Additionally, the bill defines what constitutes a cost-sharing requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB436 | Pass | This bill extends the dates in which the recommendation and plan of the Redding Consortium for Educational Equity must be reviewed and acted upon by the State Board of Education. The extension is necessary due to delays mostly caused by the COVID pan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB386 | Pass | This Act prohibits a landlord from requiring a tenant declaw a cat as a condition for entering into or renewing a rental agreement. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Draftin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB427 | Pass | House Bill 373, passed by the 151st General Assembly, clarified that persons 14 and 15 years of age can be employed in such places where alcoholic beverages are served, but cannot be involved in the sale or service of alcoholic beverages. Currently, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB390 | Pass | This Act designates the Dryptosauridae as the official dinosaur of this State. Dryptosauridae bones have been found in the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. The only other dinosaur bones that have been found in Delaware are those of a hadrosaurid, mos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB255 | Pass | This Act criminalizes the deprivation of civil rights modeled after federal law (18 U.S.C. 242) and enforced by the Delaware Department of Justices Division of Civil Rights and Public Trust. The new crime of deprivation of civil rights would be a Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB269 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for the Boy Scouts of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB19 | Pass | This bill defines and regulates electric bicycles. Section 1 adds electric bicycles to the definitions contained in Title 21. Section 2 includes electric bicycle operators and passengers as vulnerable users when on a highway, crosswalk, road shoulder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB367 | Pass | This Act makes the State Council for Persons with Disabilities consistent with current practice by revising its responsibilities to collect data regarding persons with disabilities. This Act also amends the members of the Council and clarifies the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB316 | Pass | This Act caps the amount that an individual, group, or State employee plan may charge for diabetes equipment and supplies, other than insulin, at $35 per month. This cap does not apply to accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB380 | Pass | According to a survey conducted by the American Bar Association, 90 percent of early-career lawyers have student loans, averaging $130,000. The same survey found that Black borrowers accumulated more debt to obtain their law degree compared to other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB377 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Education to conduct an annual workforce study of early childhood professionals to support the development of a plan and implementation of a system of supports to grow and deepen the early childhood workforce. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB308 | Pass | This bill brings Delaware into conformity with national standards on fire safety dampers and smoke dampers. It requires all buildings of public accommodation and shared residential buildings to conform to standards that will ensure life-saving alarms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB268 | Pass | This Act reflects the Administrative Office of the Courts current managerial authority and budgetary control over the Judicial Information Center, the Office of State Court Collections Enforcement, and the law libraries. Title 10 § 1941 is repealed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB368 | Pass | This Act deletes from the Delaware Code a derogatory and highly offensive term for Italian-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-American immigrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB197 | Pass | This bill modernizes the fees agents who sell Delaware State Park permits and Surf Fishing Vehicle permits may now impose. Licensing agents may now add a service charge of up to $2.50 for a state park permit, and a service charge of up to $5.00 for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB271 | Pass | The Justice of the Peace Court actively discourages the acceptance of warrants from citizens, yet the statute as it currently stands may be interpreted to allow such warrants. This Act abolishes citizen warrants in the Justice of the Peace Court and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB206 | Pass | This bill requires criminal background checks for any current or prospective employee, contractor, and volunteer of the Division of Health and Social Services (DHSS) who visits children in their homes and in the community and has regular, direct acce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Pass | This Act amends Delawares Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employees citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB329 | Pass | This bill updates the State Bureau of Identifications definition of criminal justice agency in two ways. First, by adding the Division of Management Support Services in the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to reflect th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB302 | Pass | House Bill No. 302 clarifies that the creation or possession of an altered or fake vaccination document is forgery in the second degree. This crime includes electronic vaccination documents because the existing definition of "written instrument&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB13 | Pass | This Act creates a Ban the Box policy for postsecondary institutions in the state. Ban the Box or Beyond the Box policies refer to the removal of questions about ones criminal conviction history on a college or job application. Research shows that qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB439 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council ("WIAC"). This Act clarifies quorum, removes a prohibition against WIAC members votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB490 | Pass | Delawares Motor Vehicle Statutes contemplate for vehicle obstructing traffic enforcement by law enforcement agencies. It is not always possible for law enforcement officers to enforce the right-of-way regulations in areas effectively due to a number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB144 | Pass | This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB459 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Ellendale in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB261 | Pass | This act streamlines the appointment process for the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission, expands the definition of dairy farmer to include all cattlemen, consolidates the appointment authorities, and simplifies the number of representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB408 | Pass | This Act would add designation that the holder is a veteran to the Delaware Driver License or Identification Card upon request. Adding designation that the holder is a veteran to a Driver License or Identification Card would eliminate the need for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB313 | Pass | This Act amends the Millsboro Charter to require the town auditor to make and deliver the annual audit report to the Town Council by the date of the Council's regular meeting in January after the end of the fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB339 | Pass | This Act provides protection to homeowners from sellers that may have misled buyers (or their settlement attorneys) regarding a criminal judgment that attached to real property. It prevents innocent owners from potentially becoming a second victim by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB279 | Pass | This Act establishes certification and continuing education requirements for central service technicians working in hospitals and freestanding surgical centers. Central service technicians are an important part of the healthcare team responsible for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB461 | Pass | This Act modifies Superior Courts statute pertaining to creation of the Courts record. Previously, the statute only contemplated stenographic recording of court proceedings. Technology has advanced which permits the Court to utilize other methods, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB425 | Pass | This bill makes needed changes to the Lyme Disease Oversight Board by adding 2 members including an infectious disease epidemiologist and a licensed veterinarian or entomology specialist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB334 | Pass | This bill permits health-care providers who are licensed in a state other than Delaware to deliver health-care services by telehealth and telemedicine only if a health-care provider-patient relationship has been established in accordance with § 6003...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB330 | Pass | This Act renames the Claymont Regional Transportation at First State Crossing in Claymont, Delaware as the "Harris B. McDowell, III Transportation Center" after Senator Harris B. McDowell, III, the longest serving member of the Delaware Gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB212 | Pass | This Act clarifies that of the 6 members of the Delaware Native Species Commission (Commission) that represent stakeholder commercial interests, such as land development, farming, and business, no more than 2 members can represent the same commercial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB394 | Pass | This Act provides that the Department of Correction must provide a copy of all policies relating to the accrual and forfeiture of good time to inmates, as well as a quarterly written accounting of good time credit earned and/or forfeited. The require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
