| DE | HR35 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution designates June, 2024 as Black Music Appreciation Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a 10-year program to address the lack of affordable housing in Delaware by establishing statewide limitations on the amount that rent can be increased as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Substitute bill clarifies it is only for new or substantially modified permits and specifies it is only for the following permits: (1) Clean Air permit; (2) Coastal Zone Act permit; (3) Solid waste permit; (4) National Pollutant Discharge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a new chapter in Title 30 and establishes the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Program (STAR Program) and the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Fund (STAR Fund). The purpose of this STAR Program is to incentivize and attrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act codifies rights afforded to persons with disabilities that are under guardianships pursuant to Chapters 39 and 39A in Title 12 of the Delaware Code. This Act also grants persons with disabilities the ability to motion the Court of Chancery f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with persons interested in the sale and pricing of prescription drugs as well as interested federal and state officials and agencies, to design and implement a wholesale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system to generate revenue for government services. These criminal fees can be an unstable revenue generator, especially when there are recessions, pandemics, or other major economic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the Grace Firestone Act to strengthen regulations for member schools regarding sudden cardiac arrest. The Act requires member schools to develop an athletic emergency action plan and have an automated external defibrillator (AED) les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB17 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as in-law units or garage apartments, are valuable and convenient forms of housing that can help to increase Delawares housing supply. In order to expand affordable housing opportunities, this Act requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act defines certain facilities which will require an applicant seeking a permit for a new facility, or expansion of an existing facility, or renewal of an existing permit, located in an overburdened community, as defined in the Act, to provide a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB388 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the Clean Indoor Air Act to include the burning of marijuana or the use of marijuana in an electronic smoking device as a prohibited activity in all the same locations where smoking a tobacco product or using an electronic smoking de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds optometrists to those health care providers eligible for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Like Senate Bill No. 21, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 21 this Act) establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a public school to provide a breakfast meal and a lunch meal free of charge to a student who is eligible for a reduced-price meal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have passed legislation establishing a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. At least 18 states have passed such legislation. Of these 18 states, 12 states have a Student Loan Ombudsperson and 13 h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (Division) to produce a report by March 31, 2025, that documents home care services as measured using the most common billing codes for the home care industry. The Act identifies the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act extends the right of employees to inspect their own personnel files to former employees. Under this Act, an employer must permit a former employee to inspect the employee's own personnel files that exist at the time of the request. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a professional loan-to-grant incentive program to encourage Delawareans to pursue careers in nursing at long-term care facilities. Funding for the incentive program is to be appropriated annually by the General Assembly, in an amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill repeals the requirement that the Housing Director provide notice of the allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Housing Development Funds to the state senator, the state representative, and the chief executive officer of the local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB210 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides that public sales of real estate may occur via an online auction process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB199 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary nurse staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses in long-term care facilities in the State and assigns ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act does all of the following: (1) Allows for all licensed independent practitioners that are treating a driver for a medical condition to report findings which allows for Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, or Physician to sign Division pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-06
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act. Many children who are undocumented do not have access to routine or preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and physicals, because they cannot afford the services. Instead they may rely upon e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the following new tax brackets for taxable years after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 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 | HB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a separate offense for theft of a catalytic converter. A first offense of catalytic converter theft is a class A misdemeanor unless the value of the stolen property is $1,500 or more, in which case it is a class G felony. A second of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB 115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12, and limits delinquency proceedings for children under 12 to a small set of very serious crimes. This Act clarifies that children un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12 and limits proceeding against a minor as an adult to a narrow set of serious crimes alleged to have been committed by children 16 or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a separate offense for theft of a catalytic converter. A first offense of catalytic converter theft is a class A misdemeanor unless the value of the stolen property is $1,500 or more, in which case it is a class G felony. A second of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act alters the State realty transfer tax credit offered to first-time home buyers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act directs DelDOT and DNREC to develop a program to allow for the expedited review of entrance plans and stormwater and sediment plans associated with new development. Under this process a consultant pre-approved by DelDOT and/or DNREC would co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation infrastructure is critical to the safe and efficient movement of people as well as goods and services throughout the State. The Delaware Strategies and Spending identifies various investment levels to help prioritize State infrastructu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act abrogates the privilege between priest and penitent in a sacramental confession relating to child abuse and neglect. It requires priests to report child abuse and neglect or to give or accept evidence in a judicial proceeding relating to chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes a loan repayment under the Speech Language Pathologist Student Loan Repayment Program, the High Needs Educator Loan Payment Program, and the Mental Health Services Student Loan Repayment Program non-taxable for state income tax purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Not Worked in 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 | HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a separate offense for the theft of mail, including packages, from a residential dwelling. A first offense of mail theft is a class A misdemeanor unless the value of the stolen property is $1,500 or more, in which case it is a class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
