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HR10Intro
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This House Resolution emphasizes the importance of middle school years and the need for additional investment in programs that serve middle school youth.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
SCR14Engross
50%
This concurrent resolution re-establishes the Student Behavior and School Climate Task Force.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB20Intro
25%
This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, prom...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor Committee
SCR4Engross
50%
This Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of African Americans and urges the celebration of Black History Month.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB18Intro
25%
Section 1 of this Act allows the Department of Insurance to retain a portion of the licensing fees for insurance professionals in the Regulatory Revolving Fund. Section 1 of this bill also increases the maximum unencumbered balance that the Commissio...
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2025-01-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
SCR10Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes January 2025, as National Blood Donor Month in the State of Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
SCR8Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes January 2025, as National Mentoring Month in the State of Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
SB32Intro
25%
This Act allows for correctional officers and probation and parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days a...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee
SCR16Enroll
75%
This Concurrent Resolution requests an advisory opinion of the Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court regarding whether a Delaware Governor can withdraw nominations submitted by the preceding Governor that otherwise are properly before the State Sena...
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2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 3 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT
HB38Intro
25%
This Act requires an institution of higher education that receives funding from this State to keep and provide records for an elected or appointed official who is employed by the institution of higher education. The University of Delaware and Delawar...
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2025-01-30
To House Education Committee
HB19Intro
25%
This Act requires that Department of Finance employees submit to criminal background checks and are subject to continuous criminal history monitoring. It also authorizes the Department to submit contractors or third parties, that require or may requi...
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2025-01-30
To House Administration Committee
SB42Enroll
75%
After enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 of the 152nd General Assembly (Chapter 446 of Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware), it was discovered that Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 would, if implemented, jeopardiz...
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2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
SCR11Engross
50%
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 4, 2025, as "USO Day" in the State of Delaware and honors USO Delaware for its important and inspiring work supporting military members and their families.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB27Engross
50%
This Act makes changes to the operating requirements for the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council.
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2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB30Enroll
75%
This Act amends the Public Laws of Delaware relating to the Affordable Housing Production Task Force by extending the deadline for the provision of the final report of the Task Force from March 1, 2025 to April 7, 2025.
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HB9Intro
25%
Section 4 of this Act requires a paid elected official or paid appointed official of this State or any political subdivision of this State (official) who is also employed by a state agency or a political subdivision of this State to disclose the dual...
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2025-01-30
Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
HCR11Engross
50%
This House Concurrent Resolution designates February 2025 as Energy Poverty Awareness Month in the State of Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HB29Engross
50%
Each year, the Department of Education (Department) publishes data regarding all Delaware public schools, currently known as School Performance Data Reports (reports). These reports are available on the Departments website as the Delaware Report Card...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Education Committee
HCR3Engross
50%
This Resolution reauthorizes the work of and extends the final report deadline for the Delaware Justice 40 Oversight Committee.
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
SCR9Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes January 2025 as Tobacco Use Awareness Month in the State of Delaware, affirms the importance of educating and protecting Delawareans from the harmful effects of tobacco use, encourages collaboration among schools, health ad...
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB40Enroll
75%
This Act modifies the effective date of Chapter 459, Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware from February 1, 2025 to June 2, 2025, which was enacted to allow One-Stop business registration by making trade name registrations fully online. It codifies exist...
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
SB50Enroll
75%
This Act amends the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (1) authorize local bond shares to adjust for William Penn High School in the Colonial School District. Further, this Act amends Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements ...
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2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
HCR10Engross
50%
This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 28, 2025, as "Rare Disease Day" in Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
SJR1Enroll
75%
Senate Joint Resolution No. 3 was passed by the 152nd General Assembly and signed by the Governor. SJR No. 3 directed all electric utilities in Delaware that offer net metering to solar customers to participate in a cost-benefit study and analysis of...
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2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
HB33Engross
50%
This Act allows criminal charges of using, consuming, or possessing other than a personal use quantity of a marijuana or other substance containing tetrahydrocannabinols and charges of public consumption of the same, where the offense is committed in...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
HR9Intro
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This House Resolution recognizes January 1, 2025, as Haitian Independence Day in the State of Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
SB20Intro
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The State of Delaware previously offered an employer match for state employee contributions to the deferred compensation program. The purpose of the match was to help state employees save and build wealth for retirement and to enable state government...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
HB2Intro
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Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit under the State Employees' Pension Plan from $7,000 to $8,000. The amount of this benefit has not been increased since 2001 (See 73 Del. Laws, c. 146, § 5).
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2025-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee
SB43Engross
50%
This Act limits the ability to set professional standards and licensing requirements for plumbing or HVACR licensees to the Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Examiners. This Act requires a 2/3 vote requireme...
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2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 3 NO 2 VACANT
HB15Intro
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This Act permits early childhood educators in the public schools to use and encourage play-based learning in preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 through 3 in their classrooms and in their curriculum. Play-based learning is defined as any learning a...
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2025-01-30
To House Education Committee
SCR15Engross
50%
This concurrent resolution designates February 2025 as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month in the State of Delaware.
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2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB16Intro
25%
This Act adds a high school student to the AI Commission as a nonvoting member. The Chair of the Commission will appoint a student who is, or will be in the next school year, a tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade student in a public or private school i...
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2025-01-29
To House Technology & Telecommunications Committee
HB11Intro
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This Act aligns state special education law with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and its implementing regulations, and also clarifies that a parents representative may obtain copies of a students special education records.
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 14 On Its Merits
HR6Intro
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This amendment to the House Rules provides that the Chief Clerk cannot refuse to accept a bill or resolution into the prefile.
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Rules) in House with 5 On Its Merits
SCR13Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes and celebrates the Lunar New Year 2025.
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2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HR7Intro
25%
This amendment to the House Rules permits a Representative to set a date certain for a bill to be heard on the House agenda, akin to a similar rule in the Senate.
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2025-01-29
Motion to Release Failed
SB5Intro
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This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom.
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2025-01-29
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
HCR8Engross
50%
This concurrent resolution designates the month of February 2025 as "Senior Independence Month".
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2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HCR7Engross
50%
This Resolution recognizes February 5, 2025, as National Girls & Women in Sports Day in the State of Delaware, to celebrate the achievements of girls and women in sports and raise awareness and support for upholding Title IX protections for futur...
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2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HB140Intro
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This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attendin...
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
HB21Intro
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This Act bans the sale of Tianeptine in the State by identifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance. Tianeptine, also known as gas station heroin, is an antidepressant drug that is not approved by the FDA and is being sold as a dietary supplemen...
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
HB23Intro
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This Act makes the following changes to human trafficking law:
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
HB10Intro
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This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment to make technical corrections to the Delaware Constitution. The first leg of this constitutional amendment was House Bill No. 430 of the 152nd General Assembly, published in Chapter 281 of Volu...
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
HCR6Engross
50%
This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 27th, 2025 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
HR8Intro
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This amendment to the House Rules adds a Rule 66A, which sets forth the procedure by which an officer may be removed from office by a Bill of Address under § 13 of Article III of the Delaware Constitution.
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2025-01-29
Tabled in Committee
SCR12Engross
50%
This resolution establishes a Retail Crime Prevention Task Force. The co-chairs of the Task Force are directed to compile a report containing a summary of the Task Forces work regarding the issues assigned to it, including any findings and recommenda...
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2025-01-29
Passed In House by Voice Vote
HB12Intro
25%
This Act creates a scholarship for students who have completed a Delaware Teacher Academy and are enrolled in a Delaware Educator Preparation Program. This scholarship supplements the Educator Support Scholarship and is intended to fill a $2500 fundi...
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2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits
HCR9Engross
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This Concurrent Resolution designates the week of February 24-February 28, PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK and commends the hard work of educators and staff. It also calls upon Delawareans to support public schools.
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2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
SCR6Engross
50%
This concurrent resolution designates February 2025, as Career and Technical Education Month in the State of Delaware to urge all citizens to become familiar with the services and benefits offered by the career and technical education programs in the...
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2025-01-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote
SB41Intro
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This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 41. Both this Act and SB 41 ban the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding with the intent to sell, and offering for sale in Delaware of food that contains Red dye 3 (CAS no. 16423-68-0). After...
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2025-01-28
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
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