| DE | HB275 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB18 | Pass | This bill amends the Merit System of Personnel Administration by allowing for preference in hiring for casual seasonal employees who are performing the same job duties of a posted merit position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB312 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB319 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB308 | Pass | This Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB431 | Pass | A major environmental concern is the spread of pathogens and invasive species across water bodies. The use of live bait in both non-tidal and tidal waters can inadvertently result in the transfer of invasive species and pathogens to new waters. Fresh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB371 | Pass | This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB302 | Pass | According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death from cancer in men. It is estimated that about 1 in 41 men will die of prostate cancer. According to ZERO Prostate Cancer, Black men face serious health ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB86 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB23 | Pass | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB340 | Pass | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB267 | Pass | This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a persons license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB291 | Pass | This Act requires that a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB293 | Pass | Federal and Delaware law protect the right to vote and the rights of individuals with disabilities to have equal access to voting places and public facilities. Nonetheless, recent information suggests that a substantial number of polling places in De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB328 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 288 of the 151st General Assembly (Chapter 371 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware) created a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use pulsating headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB378 | Pass | This Act requires health spas selling subscription services online to provide a prospective buyer of such a subscription the right to cancel the automatic renewal online. The option to cancel is also to be presented on the website in a clear and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB124 | Pass | This Act eliminates animal noise and noise disturbances from the Noise Control and Abatement Chapter in Title 7. This Act clarifies the authority of the Office of Animal Welfare and Department of Agriculture to enforce all state laws relating to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB253 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for House Bill 253. Like HB 253, it requires health insurance companies, including State employee/retiree health plans and Medicaid, to cover annual mammograms for the purpose of early detection for a woman 40 years of age or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB286 | Pass | Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB16 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB355 | Pass | This Act provides legal protections for financial institutions and other entities that provide financial or accounting services to cannabis-related businesses that are licensed or registered under Delaware law. Specifically, it clarifies that banks, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB363 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB13 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB233 | Pass | This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR6 | Pass | This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB289 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB375 | Pass | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the amount of the premium for a health-care insurance plan that this State will pay on behalf of eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB376 | Pass | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the state group health insurance program must include a pensioner coordination of benefits policy for el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB305 | Pass | This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB70 | Pass | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB197 | Pass | This Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB203 | Pass | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB317 | Pass | This bill creates a requirement for all sellers of third-party gift cards to display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB322 | Pass | This Act establishes the Delaware Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage and Culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB286 | Pass | This Act codifies the Delaware Hispanic Commission (Commission). The Commission was created by former Governor Jack Markell in Executive Order Number 28 to combine and streamline the duties of the former Governors Council on Hispanic Affairs and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB301 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB318 | Pass | This bill enables the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission to regulate the application of nutrients to turf by commercial nutrient handlers. The law excludes athletic fields, golf courses, and land used in the production for sale of sod or seed an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB169 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB106 | Pass | This Act modernizes and expands the concept of maternal mental health by replacing the definition of maternal depression with the more encompassing definition of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder. This Act contemplates treatment for any caregiver w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB194 | Pass | This Act allows pharmacists, under protocol approved by the Division of Public Health, to provide HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB362 | Pass | In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB374 | Pass | This Act updates House Bill 455 from the 151st General Assembly by providing the same legal protections afforded providers of contraceptive and abortion services to providers of fertility treatment. In summary, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB272 | Pass | Pharmacists in Delaware provide some of the same medical services as physicians, advance practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, including immunizations. The General Assembly has recently added to the services that pharmacists may provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB426 | Pass | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB140 | Fail | 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] | 2024-09-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| DE | HB204 | Pass | This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses and other staff positions in long-term care facilities in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB202 | Pass | For claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB382 | Pass | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB383 | Pass | This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB110 | Pass | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-09
Signed by Governor |
