| SB284 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of proposed amendments of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB213 | Pass | This bill adds representation from the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (DMMA) to the Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium and the Overdose System of Care Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB288 | Pass | This bill would create a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use flashing headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without allowing the use of flashing lights that would otherwise be used on emergency vehicles. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB422 | Pass | This Act amends Section 3-304 of the City of Wilmingtons Charter to allow the City of Wilmington to determine whether, and to what extent, its employees are required to be City residents. This Act does not affect residency requirements for City Counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB365 | Pass | This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2023, 2024, and 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB303 | Pass | This bill designates the Loggerhead Turtle as the official sea turtle for the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB274 | 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] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB217 | Pass | Historically, vehicles under the control of the Delaware State Fire Commission have been equipped with emergency lights. This bill amends Section 4106 to clarify and confirm that vehicles of the Delaware State Fire Prevention Commission are emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | Delaware law already prohibits the use of restraints on women who are giving birth or in labor except in limited circumstances. This Act expands that protection to include women in the second or third trimester of pregnancy and those in the 13-week i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SCR128 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution provides notice of a hearing on, and the alleged reasonable cause for, the removal, under § 13 of Article III of the Delaware Constitution, of Kathleen K. McGuiness, Auditor of Accounts, following the July 1, 2022 jury ver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT |
| HB345 | Pass | This Act ensures pregnant women and women who have given birth within the past six weeks who are subject to the custody of the Department of Corrections at Level IV or V have access to midwifery and doula services by requiring the Department to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB344 | Pass | This substitute bill places responsibility for development of bias and cultural competency training for healthcare employees in a subcommittee of the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative. The subcommittee will develop training guidelines designed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB343 | Pass | This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB340 | Pass | Improving the quality of maternal health care and ensuring full access to it improves health outcomes and reduces preventable pregnancy-related deaths. The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among high-income countries a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB234 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to take the necessary steps to expand Medicaid coverage to pregnant women from the current coverage of 60-days from the end of pregnancy under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB298 | Pass | This bill amends provisions in Title 26 of the Delaware Code, Section 1014, related to rules and regulations promulgated by the Public Service Commission, municipal electric companies, and electric cooperatives on the subject of net energy metering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB320 | Pass | This bill establishes voting by mail under the General Assemblys broad powers under § 1, Article V of the Delaware Constitution to prescribe the means, methods and instruments of voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB25 | Pass | This bill provides for election day registration for presidential primary, primary, special, and general elections whereas currently the deadline is the fourth Saturday prior to the date of the election. Moreover, same day registration at polling pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB374 | Pass | This bill extends protections to homeowners in manufactured home communities even if their homes do not qualify as manufactured homes under the current definition of manufactured home. Currently there exists a population of Delawareans living in camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB310 | Pass | This Act updates the membership and responsibilities of the Governors Energy Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB454 | Pass | This Act revises the Code to be consistent with federal law. The Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) requires states to make a free appropriate public education (FAPE) available to all children with disabilities between the ages of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB426 | Pass | This Act allows counties to use Realty Transfer Tax funds for recreational amenities and land preservation programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB183 | Pass | This Act creates a process for the Commissioner of Elections to determine if a candidate or an incumbent elected official for a State or county elected office are residents of the district or area they represent or seek to represent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB188 | Pass | This Act increases the $2,000 pension exclusion otherwise available for military pensioners under age 60 to $12,500, providing an incentive for military retirees under age 60 to locate in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act generally requires a student athlete to compete for athletic teams or in sports associated with their biological sex, as determined at or near birth and based on the students birth certificate or other government record if a birth certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | The Act protects the life of the unborn child at a time when the potential for the child to survive outside the womb increases, especially with the advancement of medical procedures. Specifically, this Act repeals the current sections of the Delaware...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 101. Like Senate Bill No. 101, this Substitute creates a right to counsel for tenants in evictions and other landlord-tenant actions. Approximately 18,000 eviction cases are filed each year in the State of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
Defeated By House. Votes: 16 YES 23 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| SR32 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses concern with President Bidens cognitive state, urges cognitive testing and publishing the results for the people in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
Stricken in Senate |
| SB292 | Enroll
Sine Die | An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| SB317 | Pass | This Act is identical to Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 9, which establishes new formulas that a community owner is allowed use to increase rent in a manufactured home community. The requirements under this Act will be in effect for 5 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB235 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the Bill of Rights for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to ensure that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SCR125 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proclaims Friday, October 28, 2022 as National First Responders Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SB239 | Pass | Chapter 29 of Title 3, which restricts the use of invasive and potentially invasive plants, was enacted by Senate Bill No. 22 in 2021, but does not take effect until July 1, 2022. This Act revises § 2904 of Title 3 so that the Department of Agricult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB304 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act updates Chapter 15 of Title 3, the regulatory provisions for seeds, by making technical and substantive revisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| SB252 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB294 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would update the minimum voting age in the Delaware Constitution from twenty-one years to eighteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| HB406 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act amends section 3534 of Title 12 to include, within the class of persons who may receive notice under the statute, designated representatives under section 3339 of Title 12 (representatives under section 3547 of Title 12 already b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB369 | Pass | This Act adds a member of the Delaware Bar, designated by the Elder Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, to the Delaware Guardianship Commission. This Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the standards of the Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SCR129 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution creates the School Violence Prevention Task Force to make findings and recommendations to ensure students and teachers are safe from violence at school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SR34 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution directs the Department of Health and Social Services to prepare reports on the Purchase of Care Program and directs the Department of Education to prepare reports on child care capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB100 | Pass | This Act establishes a Public Education Compensation Committee for the purpose of reviewing Delaware's educator compensation structure and its ability to compete with regional school districts, Delaware's private business sector, and other go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB323 | Pass | Currently, there is a manufacturer of firearm magazines in Georgetown that employs nearly 90 workers and produces 30, 20, 15, and 10 round magazines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB11 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that will modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to define either certain offenses for which, or circumstances under which, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 11 NO 2 NOT VOTING |
| HB450 | Pass | The Delaware Lethal Firearms Safety Act of 2022 prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, receipt, possession, or transport of assault weapons in Delaware, subject to certain exceptions. One exception is that the Act does no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SCR126 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution commemorates the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX and recognizes the impact it has had on improving equality in educational institutions and the workplace, while committing to build upon its foundation to continue to expa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SB26 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires that meetings of the Board of Trustees for the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, and Delaware Technical and Community College must be livestreamed using technology that permits the public to hear all participants co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB451 | Pass | This bill makes a person under the age of 21 prohibited from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition of a firearm except under limited circumstances. Those circumstances are if the person is 18 years of age or older and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB324 | Pass | House Bill 214 enacted by the 148th General Assembly (80 Del. Laws c. 287) expanded the offense of Assault in the Second Degree to include the intentional assault of ambulance operators, rescue squad members, and nurses injured while performing work-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HCR107 | Engross
Sine Die | This House Concurrent Resolution seeks to have both the House of Representatives and Senate consider amending their respective Rules , once the 152nd General Assembly assembles and convenes, for purposes of adding mandatory training, for all members,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| SB224 | Pass | This Act raises the threshold limit requiring a building and loan association to obtain federal deposit insurance from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. This threshold limit was last increased in 2019. The State Bank Commissioner does not oppose this chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
