| SB32 | Intro
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parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential.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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB42 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| SB50 | Enroll
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| SB20 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB43 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 3 NO 2 VACANT |
| SB5 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
25% | This Act provides financial support to owners who adopt a horse that retired from serving with the Department of Correction, State or Capitol police, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, or the Office of the State Fire Marsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Amendment SA 1 to SB 38 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB52 | Intro
25% | Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB46 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits any autonomous vehicle that requires a Class A commercial driver license without an O restriction from being operated on a Delaware highway for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 4 Favorable |
| SB51 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Harrington to clarify the Citys taxing powers by adding a specific power for the City Council to impose and collect a lodging tax of no more than 3% of the rent, in addition to the amount imposed by the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
25% | In a state of emergency, getting information to the public as quickly as possible is vital to the safety of the community. This Act provides protections to those who provide these essential communication and broadcasting services by deeming them &quo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| SB48 | Intro
25% | This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Intentional interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exit after being lawfully ordered to do so by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB11 | Engross
50% | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate certain felony offenses for which, or circumstances under which, pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Administration Committee |
| SB47 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes that State government offices are to close when a National Day of Mourning is declared due to the death of a current or former President.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
25% | This bill adds a new crime of application insurance fraud under the criminal code to include fraudulent statements submitted in support of an application to obtain or renew insurance or made for purposes of obtaining a commission or other payment fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
25% | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2026 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Capital Improvement Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
25% | This Act makes changes to the Diamond State Port Corporation (Corporation). Specifically, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a right to free legal counsel for a relative seeking to adopt a child in the relatives family after parental rights over the child have been terminated and the child is in the custody of the Delaware Department of Services for Childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act makes a pattern or practice of violations by a landlord of a Manufactured Home Community of subchapters I through V of Chapter 70 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, or a provision of a rental agreement, an unlawful practice under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville (Selbyville) by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. Under this Act, the OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB17 | Intro
25% | Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 99 (152nd General Assembly) created the Victims Bill of Rights Committee (VBR Committee) to perform a comprehensive review of the Victims Bill of Rights (VBR) and make recommendations to clarify the VBR, strengthen pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act requires that $7,000 be paid for the funeral expenses of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
25% | Under current Delaware law, if a labor dispute constitutes a lockout, employees who meet all other eligibility requirements qualify for unemployment benefits from the date they file their claim. However, if a labor dispute does not constitute a locko...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
25% | This Act allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement early if they are purchasing a home by providing 30 days' written notice to the landlord. The 30-day period begins on the first day of the month after the day the notice is given. This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting commission to redistrict Senatorial and Representative districts following each federal decennial census.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
25% | This Act requires dealers to offer car buyers the opportunity to purchase a contract cancellation option agreement. The contract cancellation option agreement must allow buyers to cancel a car purchase no less than 3 business days after the dealer de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to eliminate the limitations on when an individual may vote absentee and provide an absolute right to vote by absentee ballot without an excuse. This Act is in response to the Supreme Courts dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
25% | Agriculture is currently the leading industry in Delaware but as housing and other development occurs less farmland becomes available. For farmers in general, but in particular the small and medium sized farm owners, the real estate taxes imposed on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
25% | This Act builds on the success of the Downtown Development Districts Act, Chapter 19 of Title 22 of the Delaware Code, by permitting a municipality with a population of 30,000 or more in the 2020 federal census, which includes Wilmington, Dover, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals receiving a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $10,000. The amount of this benefit has not been increased sinc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to specifically authorize early, in-person voting for the general election, a primary election, and a special election filling a vacancy in the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases to $10,000 the amount of funeral expenses which can be paid for the funeral of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue company. The amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-03
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
