| DE | SB41 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB55 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits gender transition surgery for children due to the potential for an irrevocable procedure occurring when there is a significant probability that children will come to identify with their biological gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | 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parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential.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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the requirement that a school, school district, or licensed child care provider keep community notifications in a binder. Instead, schools, school district, or licensed child care providers are required to provide all of the follo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB191 | 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] | 2024-06-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes prohibitions in Title 11 of the Delaware code regarding owning or possessing certain types of folding knives that may be opened with one hand. So-called "switch blade knives", which are more appropriately called automatic k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a health-care practitioner to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy. The patient is free to choose not to view the ultrasound or listen to the auscultation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act exempts an employee of a private school from the Safe School Zone law if the employee is designated by the employees private school employer to provide security for the school and the employee holds a Delaware concealed carry permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that states that the power to tax should be limited and reserved solely for the purpose of financing necessary and essential governmental programs and operations and for no other purpose. The un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Of the 41 states with a state income tax, 27 states fully exempt military retirement pay from state income taxes and 12 states partially exempt military retirement pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Amendment SA 1 to SB 201 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Joint Resolution asks the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to require irrevocable pre-construction decommissioning bonds be posted, developers commit to landfilling decommissioned turbine components in Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates penalties for misrepresentation of a service animal under the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law and misrepresentation of an assistance animal under the Delaware Fair Housing Act. The language of these penalties is different because u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | This substitute adds emphasis to the prohibition that interim alimony may not be awarded to a party that is convicted of a violent felony. This Act prohibits an individual from receiving alimony who is convicted of committing a violent felony, where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adds different levels of criminal liability based on the specifics of a case for directors or managers of facilities who fail to take corrective action to protect patients or residents from criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida, and by the Delaware Supreme Court in Rauf v. State. In accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control from promulgating rules and regulations restricting the sale of fuel-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs in Delaware. This Act does not change the emission standards fuel-pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | On June 23, 2022, in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), the United States Supreme Court completely and dramatically changed the manner in which state-level gun laws are to be evaluated for constitutional suf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2021, the General Assembly enacted a law, Chapter 249 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware (Senate Bill 169 of the 151st General Assembly) to update and expand the definition of child care to include early education programs for children below the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB24 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires all schools with a student diagnosed with a seizure disorder to train at least 2 employees in the administration of rescue medication or treatment prescribed to treat a student with a seizure disorder. Training includes the administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently, Delaware law permits the display of a flag of the United States of America on a flagpole attached to a residential structure. The law also permits display on a flagpole on the premises, but only if the flagpole was installed prior to the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 3 NO 11 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SR31 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution urges the federal government to take steps to strengthen the southern border and take proactive measures to prevent drugs from entering the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 12 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR107 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution creates the School Violence Task Force to make findings and recommendations to ensure children feel safe travelling to and from school and within the school building for adequate learning to occur.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Because 9-1-1 dispatchers work mostly 12-hour shifts, they face scheduling difficulties for filling out their 40-hour-work week and covering shifts for sick workers. This Act allows their overtime to be calculated based on a 14-day pay period to give...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act recognizes the statutory authority of the Governor to act in the event of an emergency or disaster. During protracted emergencies and disasters, particularly those lasting more than 60 days, good governance requires participation by the Gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill excludes structures used for agricultural, horticultural, or forest use from valuation, assessment, and taxation of property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
Amendment SA 2 to SB 248 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Omnibus School Safety Fund (Fund) to provide funding to public and charter schools for certain school safety projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-07
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 20, Article I of the Delaware Constitution guarantees the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms for legitimate and lawful purposes such as defense of self, family, home and State, and for hunting and recreational use. However, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-11
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that each school district and charter school serving high school students administer in grade 10 and again in grade 12 an assessment of United States history, government, and civics that includes all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Amendment SA 1 to SB 232 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act suspends the state taxes on motor fuel in this State for 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SR26 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution urges the President of the United States and the United States Congress to implement policies and enact legislation to ensure that the United States again becomes energy independent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 4 NO 10 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB235 | 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] | 2022-03-03
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB227 | 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] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | While Delaware has, for the most part, escaped the extreme actions of mobs experienced elsewhere, and enjoyed the benefits of mostly peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights by people seriously expressing a perceived need for change, other jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | While Delaware has, for the most part, escaped the extreme actions of mobs experienced elsewhere, and enjoyed the benefits of mostly peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights by people seriously expressing a perceived need for change, other jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | While Delaware has, for the most part, escaped the extreme actions of mobs experienced elsewhere, and enjoyed the benefits of mostly peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights by people seriously expressing a perceived need for change, other jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | While Delaware has, for the most part, escaped the extreme actions of mobs experienced elsewhere, and enjoyed the benefits of mostly peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights by people seriously expressing a perceived need for change, other jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Resolution proclaims January 22, 2022 as Sanctity of Human Life Day in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-20
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 13 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes children with disabilities who attend homeschools eligible to receive speech language pathology and audiology services in the same manner as students who attend private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a school district or charter school serving high school students to provide instruction in comparative political ideology in grade 10. The instruction must include a comparative discussion of political ideologies, including communis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SR22 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution condemns the federal action against parents and reaffirms parents' rights to bring grievances to school boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-01
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 14 NO |
| DE | SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows retail dealers in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol if the gasoline is being used in watercraft. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone and removing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-24
Laid On Table in Senate |
| DE | SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides a maximum $500 tax rebate to Delawareans based on tax year 2020 payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SCR47 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proposes the formation of the Registered Voter List Improvement Task Force. This 10-member group will review current laws and practices associated with compiling and maintaining Delawares registered voter list. The main obj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-08
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 13 NO 2 ABSENT |
