Delaware Senator Kyra Hoffner [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
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parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential.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	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	HB9	Intro 25%	Section 4 of this Act requires a paid elected official or paid appointed official of this State or any political subdivision of this State (official) who is also employed by a state agency or a political subdivision of this State to disclose the dual... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DE	SCR8	Engross 50%	This resolution recognizes January 2025, as National Mentoring Month in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-30 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SCR4	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of African Americans and urges the celebration of Black History Month. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-30 Passed In House by Voice Vote
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	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	SCR15	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution designates February 2025 as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-30 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HCR11	Engross 50%	This House Concurrent Resolution designates February 2025 as Energy Poverty Awareness Month in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
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	HB140	Intro 25%	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]	2025-01-29 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
DE	HB21	Intro 25%	This Act bans the sale of Tianeptine in the State by identifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance. Tianeptine, also known as gas station heroin, is an antidepressant drug that is not approved by the FDA and is being sold as a dietary supplemen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-29 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
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	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	SCR12	Engross 50%	This resolution establishes a Retail Crime Prevention Task Force. The co-chairs of the Task Force are directed to compile a report containing a summary of the Task Forces work regarding the issues assigned to it, including any findings and recommenda... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-29 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HCR7	Engross 50%	This Resolution recognizes February 5, 2025, as National Girls & Women in Sports Day in the State of Delaware, to celebrate the achievements of girls and women in sports and raise awareness and support for upholding Title IX protections for futur... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 VACANT
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 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	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	HB3	Intro 25%	This Act creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the DOC to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody. Among other things, it permits women to collect breast milk for later retrieval and delivery to an infant or toddler by an app... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-28 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
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	HB13	Intro 25%	This Act adjusts the existing tax brackets and the tax rate for each bracket, combining some existing brackets and creating 2 new brackets. The 2 new brackets are taxed at the highest rates, but by combining some existing brackets, this Act also slig... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-23 To House Revenue & Finance Committee
DE	HB14	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to make clear that the right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and may not be infringed without a showing of a compelling state interest. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-23 To House Administration Committee
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	HCR5	Engross 50%	This House Concurrent Resolution designates January 23, 2025, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 ABSENT 2 VACANT
DE	SB49	Intro 25%	In a state of emergency, getting information to the public as quickly as possible is vital to the safety of the community. This Act provides protections to those who provide these essential communication and broadcasting services by deeming them &quo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-23 To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
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	SB48	Intro 25%	This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Intentional interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exit after being lawfully ordered to do so by... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-22 To Senate Education 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	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	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	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	SB14	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting commission to redistrict Senatorial and Representative districts following each federal decennial census. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-03 To Senate Executive 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	SB3	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to eliminate the limitations on when an individual may vote absentee and provide an absolute right to vote by absentee ballot without an excuse. This Act is in response to the Supreme Courts dec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-03 To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DE	SB2	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to specifically authorize early, in-person voting for the general election, a primary election, and a special election filling a vacancy in the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-03 To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DE	SB34	Intro 25%	This Act allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement early if they are purchasing a home by providing 30 days' written notice to the landlord. The 30-day period begins on the first day of the month after the day the notice is given. This Act ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2025-01-03 To Senate Housing 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	HB31	Intro 25%	This act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-12-19 To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	HB35	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty. The Act also removes reference to capital offenses in Section 12 of Article I because that language is inconsistent with a constitutional prohibi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-12-19 To House Administration Committee