| 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 | HB252 | Pass | This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delawa...
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB23 | Pass | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-25
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 | 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 | HB353 | Pass | This Act provides civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful disclosure of deep fakes that depict individuals in the nude or engaging in sexual conduct. It provides the same remedies as those available under: (1) the Delaware Uniform Civil Remedies...
[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 | HB377 | Pass | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee (RHBAS). Under this Act, the State must continue to offer eligible pensioners first employed by the State as a regular of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-01
Enact w/o Sign 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB411 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB432 | Pass | This Act updates provisions of the code covering the Delaware Institute of Medical Education Research (DIMER), which creates partnerships with out-of-state medical schools as an alternative to creating a state sponsored medical school. Specifically, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB299 | Pass | This Act is the Delaware Libraries for All Act. It explicitly adds public libraries to the definition of place of public accommodation for purposes of Delawares Equal Accommodations Law. It also directs the Delaware Library Consortium to develop and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB274 | Pass | Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB347 | Pass | This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB280 | Pass | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB200 | Pass | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB5 | Pass | The States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB263 | Pass | This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB279 | Pass | This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB405 | Pass | This Act removes the requirement that a juvenile can only be referred to the the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program a second or subsequent time if the juveniles prior referral was for a different offense than the second referral, allowing a juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB442 | Pass | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB309 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of child care facility to reflect the move of the Office of Child Care Licensing from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB349 | Pass | This bill codifies that the Superior Court Veterans Treatment Court is a qualified rehabilitation program under § 4177D of Title 21 of the Delaware Code for persons seeking to have their driver's licenses reinstated after a DUI. This Act makes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB281 | Pass | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB285 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB162 | Pass | House Bill 162 authorizes the process of natural organic reduction to be used in this State. Natural organic reduction is the gentle, respectful process that accelerates the decomposition of human remains to soil. This process uses large vessels to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB116 | Pass | This Act requires public institutions of higher learning to grant credit for advanced placement examination scores of 3 or higher. An instution may require a score higher than 3 if the credit is to be used for meeting a course requirement for a parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB186 | Pass | This Act makes changes to the requirements for placement on the sex offender registry of individuals who are adjudicated delinquent of certain offenses. First, it reduces the number of offenses for which placement on the sex offender registry is mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB142 | Pass | This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB151 | Pass | This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB118 | Pass | Due to continuing concerns over the negative health effects secondhand smoke will have on the youth of Delaware, this bill adds Smoking Restrictions within vehicles if a person under the age of eighteen (18) is in the vehicle. Also, it makes clear th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB78 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB181 | Pass | This Act allows the State Bureau of Identification to release subsequent arrest notifications to the Department of Education for its employees and contractors. This Act also corrects existing typos in § 309 of Title 31 and makes clarifying changes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB154 | Pass | This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB227 | Pass | This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB156 | Pass | This Act establishes the comprehensive framework for the regulation of pet insurance transacted in Delaware. The Act reflects the adoption of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Pet Insurance Model Act, with adjustments made to confor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB138 | Pass | This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB201 | Pass | As of April 4, 2023, 74 people have been killed or injured by guns in schools this year in 13 separate school shootings. School shootings hit a record high in 2022 with 46 shootings, surpassing 2021s record of 42 shootings. In 2022, 43,450 children e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB4 | Pass | This Act is Nolans Law. The purpose of this legislation is to provide more behavioral health supports to school districts and charter schools in the aftermath of a school-connected traumatic event, which is defined as the death of any student, educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB3 | Pass | According to a recent CDC survey, the COVID pandemic exacerbated an existing mental health crisis for students. One in 5 school aged children has a mental health condition, and 45% of children may have experienced a traumatic event. This bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB163 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Department of Education to issue an initial or continuing license to a Junior Reserve Officer Training Core (JROTC) Instructor who has been certified by the United States Department of Defense (USDOD). This Act also removes ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
