| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB292 | Pass | This Act updates the statute on disclosure of pupil records to ensure compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and improve information sharing between educational institutions and programs operating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB295 | Pass | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[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 | 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 | SB274 | Pass | Affordable housing is key to building strong communities and neighborhoods. This act provides that the developer of a residential subdivision is provided a percentage credit towards the expense of offsite improvements to state-maintained highways con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
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 | SB251 | Pass | The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (DIVME) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB287 | Pass | This Act clarifies the Auditor of Accounts duties and powers by amending § 2901 of Title 29 to define audit to include performance audits, and by amending §§ 2906 and 2909 of Title 29 to change "postaudit" to "audit." This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB297 | Pass | This Act acknowledges the importance of diversity and inclusivity in education by requiring the Department of Education to update content standards and regulations using a non-exhaustive list of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB300 | Pass | This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o...
[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 | 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 | SB314 | Pass | This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB329 | Pass | This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB262 | Pass | This Act permits trucks having 5 or more axles that are hauling farm produce grown in this State and traveling from the farm on which the farm produce is grown to a location at which the farm produce is to be processed or stored, or from a location a...
[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 | SB188 | Pass | This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB198 | Pass | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[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 | SB254 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB278 | Pass | This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB187 | Pass | This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Onc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB283 | Pass | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB282 | Pass | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB25 | Pass | This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
