| DE | SB61 | Intro
25% | This bill requires disclosure of votes cast at meetings of, or matters before, the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB59 | Intro
25% | Public utilities are regulated monopolies. Practically speaking, a public utility has no competition in its service territory and, therefore, does not face the economic risks that a for-profit, non-utility company must face. By law, a public utility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SCR11 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 4, 2025, as "USO Day" in the State of Delaware and honors USO Delaware for its important and inspiring work supporting military members and their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| 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 | HB18 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act allows the Department of Insurance to retain a portion of the licensing fees for insurance professionals in the Regulatory Revolving Fund. Section 1 of this bill also increases the maximum unencumbered balance that the Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB47 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes that State government offices are to close when a National Day of Mourning is declared due to the death of a current or former President.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SR2 | Engross
50% | This Resolution enacts the Rules of the Senate for the 153rd General Assembly until further action of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-12-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB390 | Pass | This bill names the hill east of Mill Creek situated on New Castle County parcel number 08-025-00-018 as Lieutenant McMichaels Hill of Eminence. This was the site of the action during the Revolutionary War that was the most impactful combat event tha...
[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 | 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 | HB253 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for House Bill 253. Like HB 253, it requires health insurance companies, including State employee/retiree health plans and Medicaid, to cover annual mammograms for the purpose of early detection for a woman 40 years of age or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
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 | 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 | 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 | HB168 | Pass | House Bill No. 168 creates a short-term rental lodging tax at the rate of 8% of the rent upon every occupancy of a short-term rental within the State. For purposes of collecting the lodging tax on short-term rentals, HB 168 creates an occupational li...
[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 |
| DE | HB330 | Pass | This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB259 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates and modernizes the DIAA Board of Directors' composition. This Act also makes technical corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB308 | Pass | This Act adopts the Uniform Special Deposits Act (the Act) authored by the Uniform Law Commission. The Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB319 | Pass | This Act changes the requirements for continuing education for doctors related to Alzheimers disease or other dementias to require that doctors must only complete 2 hours of this continuing education once. Doctors who do not have direct patient inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB195 | Pass | The Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment DMOST was enacted in 2016 under HB 64 (148th). The DMOST form allows Delawareans to plan ahead for health-care decisions, express their wishes in writing, and both enable and obligate health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB199 | Pass | This Act further clarifies the application of the provisions of this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
