| SCR 105 | Defeated | Buckson | This resolution urges Governor Meyer to submit a waiver request to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeking to prohibit the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the purchase of candy and sugar-sweetened beverages. The resolution aligns with similar efforts in other states to promote healthier food choices among SNAP recipients and to ensure that taxpayer-funded nutrition programs support the health and well-being of low-income individuals and families. By eliminating “junk foods” from the list of eligible purchases, Delaware can take a meaningful step toward reducing diet-related chronic illnesses and strengthening the nutritional integrity of the SNAP program. | URGING GOVERNOR MEYER TO SUBMIT A WAIVER REQUEST TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) BENEFITS FOR THE PURCHASE OF CANDY AND SODA IN ORDER TO ADVANCE NUTRITIONAL GOALS AND IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH OUTCOMES. |
| HS 2 for HB 13 | Committee | Lynn | Like under House Bill No. 13 (HB 13) and House Substitute No. 1 for HB 13 (HS 1 for HB 13), this Act adjusts the existing personal income tax brackets and applicable tax rates. Under this Act, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, taxable income between $60,000 and $150,000 will continue to be taxed at a rate of 6.6%, but taxable income above $150,000 will be taxed at higher rates.
The result of the changes under this Act will be that those with a taxable income of $188,500 or less will see no increase in personal income taxes, with 94% of Delaware taxpayers receiving an overall tax decrease.
Like HS 1 for HB 13, House Substitute No. 2 for HB 13 differs from HB 13 as follows:
• Creates additional tax brackets for taxable income not in excess of $60,000.
• Decreases the tax rate for all tax brackets for taxable income not in excess of $60,000.
• Creates 3 additional tax brackets for taxable income above $60,000 instead of 2.
• Names this Act the “The John Kowalko, Jr., Fairness in Taxation Act”.
In addition, House Substitute No. 2 for HB 13 differs from HS 1 for HB 13 as follows:
• Further decreases the tax rate for all tax brackets for taxable income not in excess of $60,000.
• Revises the tax brackets so that tax rates increase for taxable income above $150,000 instead of $125,000.
• Adjusts the personal income tax filing threshold to align with the revised tax brackets.
• Makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PERSONAL INCOME TAX. |
| HS 1 for HB 35 | Passed | Lynn | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty.
Amending the Delaware Constitution requires not only the passing of the changes in this Act, but also passage of the same changes after the next general election by the next General Assembly. This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage because § 1 of Article XVI of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly to amend the Delaware Constitution.
This Substitute for House Bill No. 35 makes technical corrections and omits the changes to § 12 of Article I to avoid confusion as there is a different currently pending amendment to that section. | AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROHIBITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY. |
| SCR 109 | Passed | Lockman | This resolution directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Delaware Department of Labor and the Delaware Workforce Development Board, to evaluate and report on opportunities for Delaware Pathways to support the creative economy.
| DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND THE DELAWARE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, TO EVALUATE AND REPORT ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR DELAWARE PATHWAYS TO SUPPORT THE CREATIVE ECONOMY. |
| SCR 106 | Passed | Hoffner | This Concurrent Resolution directs the State Farmland Advisory Evaluation Commission to complete a study on how other states assess property and structures devoted to agricultural, horticulture, and forest use and report its findings and recommendations by March 2, 2026. | DIRECTING THE STATE FARMLAND EVALUATION ADVISORY COMMISSION TO COMPLETE A STUDY ON TAXATION OF FARM STRUCTURES AND AGRICULTURAL LAND. |
| SCR 103 | Passed | Hocker | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes November 2025 as "Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
| RECOGNIZING NOVEMBER 2025 AS "AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SCR 104 | Passed | Walsh | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the month of June 2025 as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month in the State of Delaware. | RECOGNIZING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2025 AS MYASTHENIA GRAVIS AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| HA 1 to SB 121 | Passed | Snyder-Hall | This amendment deletes instructional language that was duplicative and potentially confusing. | |
| HA 1 to HB 193 | Passed | Hilovsky | This Amendment changes the language regarding the removal of the cap of the Trust to mirror language found accomplishing the same purpose in SB 144, to ensure there is no conflict. | |
| SR 12 | Passed | Hoffner | This Resolution designates September 21-28, 2025, as “Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week” in the State of Delaware. | DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 21-28, 2025, AS “FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION AWARENESS WEEK” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| HA 2 to SB 48 | Passed | K. Williams | This Amendment to Senate Bill No. 48, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1, makes the following changes:
(1) Clarifies that intentional interference with the operation of a school bus can occur if threats are against the bus driver or any passenger on the bus, regardless of the passenger's status, such as a student, bus attendant, disability aide, school staff, or a contractor. This clarification is made by removing specific examples of passengers that might be covered because a detailed list of possible passengers has the unintended effect of narrowing the application of the provision.
(2) Clarifies that the intentional interference with the operation of a school bus can also occur if the threats are made while the school bus passenger is on the bus, not only when entering, leaving, or waiting for the school bus.
(3) Clarifies that only those passengers, including students, who are authorized to be on the school bus in the ordinary course of business may not be guilty of disorderly conduct for intentionally interfering with the operation of a school bus. | |
| HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 162 | Stricken | Ross Levin | This Amendment clarifies that only subsection (a) of § 2599 is an unlawful practice under § 2513 of Title 6 and subchapter II of Chapter 25 of Title 6. The other requirements of the Act are enforced by private right of action.
This Amendment also provides that the disclosure required in subsection (a) and the contract in subsection (d) of § 2599 may be in written or electronic form. However, the transmission of the disclosure or contract must be in physical form if the primary contact between the parties is in person. If the primary form of communication between the parties is electronic, then the document and contract may be an electronic transmission. | |
| HA 1 to HB 152 | Passed | Gorman | This amendment changes the non-aggravated version of criminal impersonation of a law-enforcement official from a class E felony to a class D felony. | |
| HA 3 to HB 133 | PWB | Snyder-Hall | This Amendment changes the effective date of the Act from 180 days after enactment to July 1, 2026. | |
| HA 1 to HB 150 | PWB | Gorman | This Amendment clarifies the language at line 29 of the original bill with regards to the areas surrounding the courthouse that are covered. This Amendment also adds a provision that allows law enforcement officers to conduct a civil arrest in a courthouse if the law enforcement officer provides the presiding judge with written notice. | |
| HB 217 | Committee | K. Johnson | This Act requires a lease to set forth clear procedures for the surrender of rental unit keys at the end of the rental term in residential leases, and provides default procedures for key return when there is no lease provision or other agreement. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO KEY SURRENDER IN RESIDENTIAL LEASES. |
| HB 218 | Committee | Chukwuocha | This Act requires the courts to consider whether a military protective order has been issued against a respondent in determining whether there is an immediate and present danger to the petitioner. It further requires that a law-enforcement officer notify the agency that entered a military protective order against an individual, if the law-enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that the individual violated the military protective order. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INTERPERSONAL AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE MILITARY. |
| HB 219 | Committee | Phillips | This Act designates "Diwali Day" as a ceremonial day to be commemorated appropriately annually in Delaware. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DIWALI DAY. |
| HA 1 to HB 213 | PWB | Griffith | This Amendment adds a carve out making the privilege inapplicable to Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families and child abuse actions. | |
| SCR 111 | Passed | Mantzavinos | This Concurrent Resolution establishes the Automobile Insurance Reform Task Force (“Task Force”). The General Assembly is creating the Task Force to address rising costs relating to automobile insurance both in private passenger and commercial markets. Rates have risen in actuarially justified manner due to a number of factors including increasing commonality of expensive vehicle technology, supply shortages, inflation and tariffs, rising health care costs, and significant insurer loses during climate events. | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE REFORM TASK FORCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER COST-SAVING LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, AND POLICIES. |
| SS 1 for SB 116 | Out of Committee | Lockman | This Act allows tenants who are being evicted for failure to pay rent to remain in their homes if they pay all amounts owed prior to being evicted. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Drafting Manual.
This Substitute differs from the original Act by incorporating the changes from Senate Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 116 which includes the following changes:
- Increased the time from 12 to 24 months for the lookback period for restricting the number of times the right of redemption is available to a tenant.
- Puts a requirement to proactively file with the court a request for a stay of the writ if payment is made after the writ of possession has been posted.
- Makes clear that payment after posting of the writ only stays the writ until the payment has cleared and dismissal is not required until such time.
This Substitute also adds the following changes based on further input from stakeholders:
- Makes it clear that this Act only applies to evictions based on failure to pay rent.
- Clarifies that any rent that is due under the terms of the lease must also be paid, in addition to any demanded past due and per diem rent, for redemption to apply.
- Adds language that the landlord may restrict any payments to methods accepted under the terms of the lease, and the landlord may further restrict any payments made after judgment is entered to certified checks or money orders.
| AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. |
| SS 1 for SB 130 | Out of Committee | Paradee | This Act prohibits retail stores and wholesalers from selling, distributing, or offering for sale in this State expanded polystyrene foam food service packaging products, most expanded polystyrene foam coolers, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fill packaging, such as packing peanuts. These types of expanded polystyrene foam products are difficult to recycle and are not accepted in Delaware’s curbside recycling program. Such products typically end up in landfills, where they take hundreds of years to break down. By prohibiting the sale of expanded polystyrene food service packaging products, expanded polystyrene foam coolers, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fill packaging, this Act helps protect the environment from harmful waste. The Act does allow for certain uses of expanded polystyrene packaging (e.g., trays for raw or butchered meat) when necessary for health and safety reasons.
This Act also allows for a temporary waiver of its prohibition on expanded polystyrene foam food packaging, expanded polystyrene foam coolers, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fill packaging if there is not a financially feasible or commercially available alternative for a specific expanded polystyrene foam product prohibited under this Act, and the retail store or wholesaler can show that the ban will cause a significant financial hardship.
This Act is a Substitute for Senate Bill No. 130. It differs from Senate Bill No. 130 as follows:
1. Specifies that the prohibition on expanded polystyrene foam products is limited to expanded polystyrene foam food service packaging, expanded polystyrene foam coolers, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fill packaging such as packing peanuts.
2. Clarifies that the prohibition on these products applies only to products sold in Delaware, by Delaware retail stores and wholesalers, and narrows the definitions of retail stores and wholesalers accordingly. This change is being made to alleviate concerns that the Act attempted to regulate expanded polystyrene foam products sales in other states.
3. Explicitly excludes food establishments such as restaurants from the definition of “retail store”, as the use of polystyrene foam food service products in food establishments is already regulated under § 3004Q of Title 16.
4. Removes language that had allowed the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control the discretion to create new exemptions.
5. Creates an exemption for expanded polystyrene coolers used to transport or ship live fish or other marine life.
6. Consolidates the waiver provisions into a single provision that allows for a 1-year renewable waiver in cases where compliance with is not a financially feasible and commercially available alternative for a specific expanded polystyrene foam product and the retailer or wholesaler can show that the ban will cause significant financial hardship.
This Act takes effect on January 1, 2027. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM PRODUCTS. |
| SA 1 to SB 123 | Passed | Mantzavinos | This Amendment removes Section 3 of Senate Bill No. 123. | |
