Delaware Senator David Sokola [D]

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DEHB333PassThis Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DESB236PassThis bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DESB234PassThis bill will extend the timeframe for a customer to apply for a document fee credit refund from 15 days to 30 days. This change will improve customer service by allowing a customer more time to submit the applicable paperwork.
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DESB313PassSection 1. Section 1 of this Act amends § 122. New § 122(18) sets forth certain types of provisions that may be included in contracts between a corporation and its current or prospective stockholders or beneficial owners of its stock, even if those...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DEHB442PassThis Act creates the Affordable Housing Production Task Force (Task Force). The purpose and mission of the Task Force is to investigate and make findings and rcommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on how the State and local governmen...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DEHB155Enroll
75%
This bill makes the unsafe storage of a firearm in a vehicle a class A misdemeanor if the person knowingly leaves a firearm unattended in a vehicle and the firearm is not stored in a locked box or container, a firearms rack that is on the motor vehic...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
DEHB86Enroll
75%
This Act establishes a right to counsel for indigent parents in DSCYF custody proceedings. Parent representation will primarily be provided by a legal services entity contracted with the Family Court, but may also be provided by the Office of Defense...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB264Enroll
75%
This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB215Enroll
75%
This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB16Enroll
75%
This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB318Enroll
75%
This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB311Enroll
75%
In many states acts of violence have been committed with the use of firearms on college and university campuses that have resulted in both injury and death to students and faculty. This Act adds post-secondary colleges and universities to the Safe Sc...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 14 NO
DEHB312Enroll
75%
School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inf...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB319Enroll
75%
This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB326PassThis is a substitute for House Bill No. 326.
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB235PassThis Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB330Enroll
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This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB329Enroll
75%
This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESJR4Enroll
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This Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB342Enroll
75%
This Act creates a Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry in which an applicant may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a firearm. An individual on the Registry may request removal from the Registry no sooner than 3...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING
DESB25Enroll
75%
This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB22Enroll
75%
This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB244Enroll
75%
This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB246Enroll
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For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB247Enroll
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This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING
DESB248PassThis Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the em...
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB245Enroll
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The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB13Enroll
75%
Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB363Enroll
75%
This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING
DESB270PassThis Act is the statutory recognition of the recommendations set forth in the June 2, 2023, report of the DEFAC Benchmark Evaluation and Review Panel.
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB12Enroll
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This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting pr...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 7 NO 2 NOT VOTING
DESB11Enroll
75%
This is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 11. Like Senate Bill No. 11, this Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 8 NO 1 NOT VOTING
DESB289Enroll
75%
This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB300Enroll
75%
This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 3 ABSENT
DESB301Enroll
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Like Senate Bill No. 301, this Act, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 301 requires public universities in this state to provide access to medication for the termination of pregnancy and emergency contraception. The medication and contracept...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 16 NO 1 ABSENT
DESB295Enroll
75%
This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB282Enroll
75%
This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB311Enroll
75%
This bill creates new subsections in Section 507(c) of Title 14 of the Delaware Code to define the licensure and certification requirements more clearly within Chapter 5 of Title 14 and provides the ability for charter schools to hire the administrat...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB283Enroll
75%
This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHB434Enroll
75%
This substitute bill requires the Secretary of DNREC to follow certain procedures when conducting public hearings, while giving discretion to the Secretary in choosing which hearings the procedures apply to.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB169Enroll
75%
This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, p...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB329Enroll
75%
This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB314Enroll
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This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHCR161Engross
50%
This resolution recognizes November 2024 as Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month in Delaware.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHCR162Engross
50%
This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the second week of October 2024 as Obesity Care Week in the State of Delaware.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB444Enroll
75%
This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB411Enroll
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This bill seeks to amend sections of Chapter 66 concerning the members of Delaware Volunteer Fire Departments. This bill will hold current members to the same standards as applicants with relation to criminal activity.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB147Engross
50%
This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ...
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2024-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DEHB13Enroll
75%
This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant ...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
DEHB282VetoThis Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
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2024-06-27
Enacted into Law
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