| HA 1 to HB 355 | PWB | Morrison | This Amendment removes "shall be entitled to the following damages" and removes the list thereafter from the Act and substitutes that language with "may be entitled to attorneys' fees and costs" to better reflect current Delaware practice and to provide the Court with more discretion in determining fees. | |
| HA 1 to HB 341 | PWB | Chukwuocha | This Amendment clarifies that child support obligations for a child in DSCYF care are determined by the Delaware Child Support Formula, rather than DHSS regulations as alluded to in § 7940 of Title 29. | |
| HB 371 | Committee | Vanderwende | This Act removes the requirement that the counties each establish a Farmland Preservation Advisory Board. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE AGRICULTURAL LANDS PRESERVATION ACT. |
| SCR 170 | Passed Senate | Huxtable | This Resolution recognizes the month of April 2026 as "National Donate Life Month" in the State of Delaware. | RECOGNIZING THE MONTH OF APRIL 2026 AS "NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| HB 380 | Committee | Griffith | This Act amends the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA), Chapter 12D of Title 6, originally enacted in 2023, to more closely align the DPDPA with similar consumer data protection laws enacted in other states. This Act amends the applicability threshold of the DPDPA to entities who process the personal data of not less than 15,000 consumers, which on a population percentage basis closely aligns to thresholds in Connecticut and New Jersey. This Act amends Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) applicability exemptions, adopting approaches to financial data in similar laws in Connecticut, Montana, and Oregon, by exempting all data regulated by GLBA while limiting entity-level exemptions specifically to banks and insurers and their respective affiliates. This Act introduces contracting and due diligence requirements where businesses sell or disclose personal data to third parties and also harmonizes several DPDPA business requirements and consumer rights with personal data privacy laws in other states.
This Act also makes technical changes to existing law to conform to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PERSONAL DATA PRIVACY. |
| HB 366 | Committee | Gorman | This Act prohibits law-enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings that obscure the identity of the individual wearing them in the course of their duties, with exceptions for undercover operations and exigent circumstances.
This Act ensures that law enforcement officers in Delaware cannot wear masks or facial coverings that hide their identity when they are carrying out their official duties. Our community deserves to know who is enforcing the law, and clear identification is essential to building trust between residents and law enforcement. When law enforcement officers are acting in public and exercising authority, people should be able to see their faces. This improves accountability, strengthens public confidence, and makes Delaware safer for everyone.
The bill defines “facial covering” to include items like balaclavas, ski masks, or tactical masks that obscure the face. It does not ban protective equipment such as medical masks, respirators, or breathing devices that officers need for health and safety, nor does it interfere with undercover operations that require anonymity. It also specifically exempts undercover operations that occur during the course of a criminal investigation or for SWAT teams that are specially trained police units used in high-risk situations that go beyond the capacity of regular patrol officers.
This Act serves to empower Delaware law enforcement officers to intervene and verify the identity of any person claiming or otherwise acting as law enforcement while wearing a facial covering, but nothing in this Act diminishes the discretion of law enforcement officers to determine whether it is appropriate to stop or charge any person. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT IDENTIFICATION. |
| HB 381 | Committee | Griffith | This Act amends Chapter 12B of Title 6 relating to Computer Security Breaches to clarify when businesses must provide notice of a computer security breach to the Attorney General. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPUTER SECURITY BREACHES. |
| HB 367 | Committee | Gorman | This Act requires every law enforcement agency in Delaware to adopt and publicly post a written policy requiring officers to display identification while performing enforcement duties. Identification must include the officer’s agency and a name, a badge number, or both.
This Act also recognizes that there are circumstances where identification cannot or should not be displayed. It creates exceptions for:
• Officers engaged in active undercover operations.
• Officers wearing personal protective equipment (such as gas masks or respirators) that prevents identification from being visible.
• Exigent circumstances, including imminent threats to people or property, an escape in progress, or the destruction of evidence.
• Cases where there is a specific and articulable threat to the physical safety of the officer if identification is displayed.
To ensure accountability, this Act makes failure to display identification a violation. Repeated violations may result in an unclassified misdemeanor, underscoring the seriousness of the requirement.
This Act serves to empower Delaware law enforcement officers to intervene and verify the identity of any person claiming or otherwise acting as law enforcement but who fails to display clear identification, but nothing in this Act diminishes the discretion of law enforcement officers to determine whether it is appropriate to stop or charge any person. This Act also strikes a balance by giving the public confidence that law enforcement officers can be identified and held accountable while also preserving officer safety and operational effectiveness. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT IDENTIFICATION. |
| HB 368 | Committee | Gorman | This Act sets limits around the actions of law-enforcement agencies and officers, including the Department of Correction. Primarily, the bill prohibits detaining or extending the detention of any person based solely upon an immigration detainer or civil immigration warrant, with exceptions for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony, is a convicted sex offender, has 3 or more convictions for driving under the influence, or is a perpetrator of domestic violence.
It also prohibits other law-enforcement actions relating to cooperation or enforcement of civil immigration law, requires certain reports from law-enforcement agencies, and grants the Attorney General investigative and enforcement power. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND COOPERATION. |
| HB 369 | Committee | Gorman | This Act codifies Executive Order No. 9 issued on May 1, 2025, by Governor Matthew Meyer regarding the establishment, within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE OF GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY SAFETY. |
| HA 1 to HB 326 | PWB | Morrison | This Amendment removes the conviction penalty and sentencing requirements for this crime from the bill, leaving it to the discretion of the courts. | |
| SB 281 | Committee | Paradee | The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), through the Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities (DSAAPD), operates the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill (DHCI), a Long-Term Care (LTC) facility in Smyrna, Delaware. DHCI is a facility of last resort for Delawareans that require a skilled nursing facility level of care and have no viable options for private nursing facility care.
The Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill’s name no longer reflects the dignity of all residents who live there. The existing statute uses outdated and offensive language, often referring to residents as “inmates.” It does not align with current policies and procedures around operation and maintenance of DHCI or the skilled care, screening, and admission of its residents, nor does it recognize DHCI’s role as a skilled nursing facility that maintains a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
This bill provides a technical update to reflect DHCI’s current practices, policies and procedures as a LTC facility of last resort. It strikes outdated language and aligns the statute with current DHCI, state, CMS practices and requirements.
Finally, this bill renames the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill to the Eleanor Cain Center. It will be named in honor of Eleanor Lee Cain, who served as the DSAAPD director from 1973 to 2001 and was a champion for older adults. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TECHNICAL UPDATES FOR THE DELAWARE HOSPITAL FOR THE CHRONICALLY ILL. |
| SA 1 to SB 194 | PWB | Poore | This Amendment removes references to the Department of Health and Social Services to reflect current practices. | |
| SB 282 | Committee | Hoffner | This Act amends the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Services Act (DWCCSA) in several ways. First, in order to make a prima facie showing of entitlement to compensation, under the Act, a petitioner must show that the petitioner did not commit a felony arising from the same transaction as the crime for which the petitioner was originally convicted.
Second, the Act modifies what attorneys' fees may be recovered for an action to overturn, reverse, or vacate a conviction and an action under the DWCCSA. Under the Act, a petitioner who prevails on a cause of action against the state for wrongful conviction shall be awarded reasonable attorneys' fees, based on hours reasonably expended at the prevailing market rate for similar legal services in the state at the time of an award for damages for wrongful conviction, regardless of when the legal services were actually provided. Attorneys' fees may not exceed 15% of a damages award for wrongful conviction under § 7005(a) of Title 10. Attorneys' fees of $300,000 or less will be paid to the petitioner's attorneys in a lump sum; attorneys' fees in excess of $300,000 will be paid in annual installments of not more than $300,000, until the award is satisfied.
Third, under the Act, the Office of Management and Budget takes over tasks and responsibilities that currently belong to the State Treasurer, including the annual adjustment in the amount of damages available under § 7005(a) of Title 10, management of the Wrongful Conviction Compensation Fund will exist with the legal services appropriation within the Office of Management and Budget, and the obligation to report quarterly to the Joint Finance Committee and the Controller General.
The Act takes effect upon its enactment into law. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WRONGFUL CONVICTION COMPENSATION AND SERVICES. |
| SB 18 | Committee | Mantzavinos | This Act repeals the existing Chapter 23 of Title 5 and replaces it with the “Delaware Money Transmission and Virtual Currency Modernization Act.” This Act modernizes the State’s regulatory framework for money transmission and addresses the emergence of virtual currency. The Act allows the State Bank Commissioner to coordinate with other states in the licensing and supervision of money transmitters, utilizing the NMLS system. The Act establishes new safety and soundness standards, including a tiered net worth requirement based on total assets and updates surety bond requirements scaled to a licensee’s average daily money transmission liability.
The Act standardizes receipt requirements for both fiat and virtual currency transactions, provides a 10-day refund window for certain transmissions, and establishes specific disclosure rules for payroll processing services. This Act provides a 6-month window for general compliance and a 1-year period for licensees to meet new net worth and permissible investment standards.
This Act creates new regulatory framework for virtual currency business activity. It defines virtual currency and virtual currency business activity. It mandates specific consumer disclosures regarding the risks of virtual currency and establishes that virtual currency held by a licensee is a pro rata property interest not subject to the claims of the licensee’s creditors.
The Act allows the Commissioner to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this chapter. The Act is to be implemented the earlier of 1 year from the date of the Act’s enactment or notice from the State Banking Commissioner that final regulations have been promulgated.
This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage because § 1 of Article IX 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 general corporation law. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 5 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMISSION. |
