| DE | SJR2 | Intro
25% | This resolution requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a report to the Delaware General Assembly, by January 1, 2026, for the provision of insurance coverage for Community Health Worker services by Medicaid providers, whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB50 | Intro
25% | This Act addresses energy costs to consumers by redirecting certain funds to supplement the existing Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and by creating the Delaware Energy Fund to provide assistance to consumers whose household income is less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB50 | Pass | 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] | 2025-02-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB30 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the Public Laws of Delaware relating to the Affordable Housing Production Task Force by extending the deadline for the provision of the final report of the Task Force from March 1, 2025 to April 7, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT |
| DE | HB2 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit under the State Employees' Pension Plan from $7,000 to $8,000. The amount of this benefit has not been increased since 2001 (See 73 Del. Laws, c. 146, § 5).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB19 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that Department of Finance employees submit to criminal background checks and are subject to continuous criminal history monitoring. It also authorizes the Department to submit contractors or third parties, that require or may requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SCR9 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes January 2025 as Tobacco Use Awareness Month in the State of Delaware, affirms the importance of educating and protecting Delawareans from the harmful effects of tobacco use, encourages collaboration among schools, health ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB15 | Intro
25% | This Act permits early childhood educators in the public schools to use and encourage play-based learning in preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 through 3 in their classrooms and in their curriculum. Play-based learning is defined as any learning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB20 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, prom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Labor Committee |
| DE | SCR10 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes January 2025, as National Blood Donor Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| 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 | HB11 | Intro
25% | This Act aligns state special education law with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and its implementing regulations, and also clarifies that a parents representative may obtain copies of a students special education records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 14 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB12 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a scholarship for students who have completed a Delaware Teacher Academy and are enrolled in a Delaware Educator Preparation Program. This scholarship supplements the Educator Support Scholarship and is intended to fill a $2500 fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR8 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates the month of February 2025 as "Senior Independence Month".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT |
| DE | 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
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB22 | Engross
50% | This Act provides that commissioned constables have the authority to direct traffic, if they are doing so while in the performance of the lawful duties of employment. In addition to explicitly granting constables this power under § 5609 of Title 24,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB7 | Engross
50% | This bill resolves an internal inconsistency in the Insurance Code regarding the timing of payment of taxes for captive insurance companies and surplus lines brokers. Sections 1917 and 6914 of the Insurance Code specifically address the amount and ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SCR6 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates February 2025, as Career and Technical Education Month in the State of Delaware to urge all citizens to become familiar with the services and benefits offered by the career and technical education programs in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SCR5 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes the Easterseals/CAI Volleyball Challenge occurring March 8 at University of Delaware Carpenter Sports Building, an event that raises funds for an organization providing services and support to Delawareans with disabilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SCR3 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR2 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 9, 2025, as "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB26 | Intro
25% | This Act makes it unlawful to possess, operate any motor vehicle with, purchase, install, manufacture, sell, offer to sell, or otherwise distribute a number plate flipping device. A number plate flipping device means a manual, electric, or mechanical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-19
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| 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 | HB332 | Pass | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB434 | Pass | 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.
[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 | HB277 | Pass | This Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
[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 | HB190 | Pass | This bill updates the current law relating to the Spay Neuter Fund and the administration of that fund to make it easier to administer the fund and animal population control programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB358 | Pass | This Act serves to clean up certain sections of the Boards Practice Act. Required statutory language omitted due to oversight have been added, such as standards for reciprocity, issuance and renewal of licenses, and hearing procedures. The requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR4 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-01
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 | SB82 | Pass | This Act is a Substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Both this Act and SB 82 require State programs to provide annual reports to the General Assembly about compliance with federal and State law and regulation that require meaningful access to services fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
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 |
