| 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parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential.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 | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| 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 | HJR1 | Intro
25% | This Joint Resolution establishes the Small Restaurant Regulatory Reform Task Force, established for the goal of reducing unnecessary burdens created by the regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Social Services. By June 1, 2026, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | HCR143 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution calls on the General Assembly to encourage the Delaware medical community to educate the citizens of Delaware about the forced organ harvesting that occurs in China, in the event they decide to travel to China for an expedited transpl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HB 399 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Like Chapter 19 of Title 10, covering judicial officers, and a similar provision pending for correctional officers, this Act allows law enforcement officers to submit a written request that their personal information not be publicly released. The wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Amendment HA 1 to HB 412 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation, the State Spending Accountability Amendment, is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would reform the state budgeting process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration 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 | HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 359. This Act, like House Bill No. 359, changes the applicability of the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. This Act differs from House Bill No. 359 because instead of applying all of the provisions of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act grants school districts and charter schools the ability to decide if they want to pay prevailing wage for school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | The Constitution of the State of Delaware creates 3 branches of State Government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, each having certain delineated responsibilities or powers within a framework that limits and separates the powers of each bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act expands the crime of criminal mischief to include damaging an authorized emergency vehicle, defining them as vehicles of a fire department, fire company, police vehicles, ambulances, as well as vehicles used by a fire chief, chief engineer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR112 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution calls on the General Assembly to encourage the Delaware medical community to educate the citizens of Delaware about the forced organ harvesting that occurs in China, in the event they decide to travel to China for an expedited transpl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act modifies the eligibility standard from 100% disability to 80% disability or greater for veterans to qualify for the credit against taxation on qualified property and corrects a typographical error.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HCR98 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution requests the Governor of Delaware provide recommendations for the future of education by addressing funding, improving academic performance, standardized testing, and school safety and climate to the 153rd Delaware General Assembly by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax rate increases resulting from cost-of-living pay increases that push lower income taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| 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 | HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| 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 | HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act enhances the General Assemblys oversight of regulations adopted by state agencies by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in review and oversight of regulations adopted by State agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration 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 | HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 167. Like House Bill No. 167, this Act establishes school resource officer units to fund school resources officers in all Delaware public schools. Specifically, this Act funds at least 1 school resource off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act revises the membership of the State Employee Benefits Committee by removing the Delaware retiree appointed by the Governor and adding 2 members who are eligible to receive health care insurance under Chapter 52 of Title 29 under a pension or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| 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 | HB133 | Intro
Sine Die | First responders, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians, and public safety telecommunicators, are crucial to ensuring public safety and health. First responders are at elevated risk for suicide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
Amendment HA 1 to HB 133 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | HB29 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the Senior Real Property Tax credit to $750 from $400 as authorized in the Appropriations Bill for fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, which effectively amended Title 29, § 6102(q)(3) from $500 to $400.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB97 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act decreases the Contractor Registration Fee for contractors who do not have a state contract and have 3 or less employees. This Act is to become effective July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Labor 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 |
