| HB20 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Labor Committee |
| HB18 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB19 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Administration Committee |
| HB27 | Engross
50% | This Act makes changes to the operating requirements for the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB30 | Enroll
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT |
| HB9 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB29 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB40 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT |
| HB33 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB2 | Intro
25% | 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).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB15 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB16 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Technology & Telecommunications Committee |
| HB11 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 14 On Its Merits |
| HB140 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| HB21 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB23 | Intro
25% | This Act makes the following changes to human trafficking law:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB10 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB12 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits |
| HB7 | Engross
50% | This bill resolves an internal inconsistency in the Insurance Code regarding the timing of payment of taxes for captive insurance companies and surplus lines brokers. Sections 1917 and 6914 of the Insurance Code specifically address the amount and ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| HB3 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the DOC to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody. Among other things, it permits women to collect breast milk for later retrieval and delivery to an infant or toddler by an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB24 | Engross
50% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Delmar in multiple respects. In Section 7 of the Charter, which involves Nominations and Elections, every person over the age of 18 years who has resided in the town for 30 days prior to the election will b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB22 | Engross
50% | This Act provides that commissioned constables have the authority to direct traffic, if they are doing so while in the performance of the lawful duties of employment. In addition to explicitly granting constables this power under § 5609 of Title 24,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs led by a cabinet-level Secretary to advocate for and administer programs relating to veterans in the State of Delaware. It is the intent of this legislation that current staff of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB6 | Engross
50% | This Act allows the Auditor of Accounts to issue subpoenas directly, removing a requirement that the Auditor first file a praecipe with the Superior Court prothonotary. It also allows the Auditor to effect service of such a subpoena, and to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB13 | Intro
25% | This Act adjusts the existing tax brackets and the tax rate for each bracket, combining some existing brackets and creating 2 new brackets. The 2 new brackets are taxed at the highest rates, but by combining some existing brackets, this Act also slig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB14 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to make clear that the right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and may not be infringed without a showing of a compelling state interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Administration Committee |
| HB25 | Engross
50% | This bill amends the charter of the Town of Millsboro to authorize redistricting of the Town's 3 municipal election districts using the 2020 federal decennial census by January 1, 2026 and to thereafter redistrict within 2 years of the latest fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB28 | Intro
25% | This bill removes certain limitations placed on Sussex County Vocational Technical High School, thereby allowing the school district the same rights and privileges as Polytech (Kent County) and New Castle Vo-Tech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Tabled in Committee |
| HB32 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes school officer units to fund school resource officers or constables in all Delaware public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
Motion to Release Failed |
| HB8 | Intro
25% | Twenty-six states presently allow first cousin marriages. No European country prohibits marriages between first cousins. It is also legal throughout Canada and Mexico. This Act amends Delawares marriage laws by recognizing a valid marriage obtained o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB101 | Intro
25% | This Act appropriates $17,561,900 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB100 | Intro
25% | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB4 | Intro
25% | This Act amends Chapters 1, 5, 7, and 17 of Title 7 of the Delaware Code to be consistent with the recent legislative change of the definition of a firearm in Title 11. This Act is needed to address public safety and enforcement concerns. Archery equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| HB34 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Newark Charter by authorizing the City of Newark to levy and collect a per student, per semester tax on Colleges and Universities that host in person classes which are located within the boundaries of the City of Newark. This tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Elections to review every political committees contribution and expense report and to note the report, on the Departments website, as either Submitted but Not Reviewed or Reviewed and Final. If the Department disco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB5 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that an enacted state agency regulation will automatically expire unless explicitly reauthorized by the General Assembly to continue. This Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB31 | Intro
25% | This act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-19
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB35 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty. The Act also removes reference to capital offenses in Section 12 of Article I because that language is inconsistent with a constitutional prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-19
To House Administration Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
25% | This Act makes it unlawful to possess, operate any motor vehicle with, purchase, install, manufacture, sell, offer to sell, or otherwise distribute a number plate flipping device. A number plate flipping device means a manual, electric, or mechanical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-19
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
