http://www.legis.delaware.gov/ Legislation Passed by the Delaware House of Representatives en-us Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:12:30 -0400 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142925 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 141 makes the following changes: Rather than requiring a buyer or individual to sign a copy of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice to be retained by a dealer, the Act will instead require signing and retention of a form acknowledging receipt of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice. The amendment also requires that a proposed version of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice be published in the Register of Regulations along with a means for submission of public comment. The effective date is changed to be the date on which a notice is published in the Register of Regulations that the final form of the Firearm Responsiblities Notice is ready. The Department of Safety and Homeland Security is required to publish an acknowledgement form for use along with the Firearm Responsibilities Notice that contains the statement: “I understand that by signing this form I may be exposing myself to criminal liability.” This amendment also makes technical corrections.]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:12:30 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143108 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This House Amendment to House Substitute No. 2 for House Bill No. 94 simplifies the definition of “law-enforcement agency” by referencing “law-enforcement officer” a term that is defined in the general definitions section of Title 11.]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:02:42 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142901 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment changes the submission date for the annual report to January 1 instead of December 1 and allows the reporting on lead screening prior to school enrollment to be combined with and transmitted together with the more general annual lead report required under § 2606 of Title 16. ]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:20:54 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143083 Delaware House - Passed Legislation House Amendment No. 2 to House Bill No. 325 clarifies that the Regulatory Council for Physician Associates must adopt rules and regulations regarding the following: 1) The licensing of physician associates to allow performance of medical services within their education, training, and experience. 2) An application for independent practice authority within a setting with at least 1 licensed Delaware physician. 3) An application for independent practice authority within a setting with no licensed Delaware Physician. 4) An application to report changes to the practice area of the independent practice authority withing a setting with no licensed Delaware physician. 5) The conditions under which a physician associate who is denied a waiver of the collaborative agreement requirement may reapply. ]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:13:07 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143013 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 325 removes the provision that required "Payment for services within the physician associate’s scope of practice must be made when ordered or performed by the physician associate, if the same service would have been covered if ordered or performed by a physician. Payment for services must be based on the services provided and not on the health care professional who delivered the service." It also removes the adjective "existing" from "physician associate state law or regulation” with respect to standards that insurers and third parties may impose with respect to physician associate billing. ]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:10:07 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142994 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment adds an exception to the bill in the event of an executive session of the Public Service Commission or if there are unavoidable technical difficulties with the livestream. This amendment also provides that in the event of technical difficulties, good-faith efforts must be made to restore virtual capabilities.]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:35:55 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142947 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes the following technical corrections: 1. Reorganizes paragraph structure in Section 1 and Section 2 of HS 1 for HB 200 to be consistent with other health coverage mandates in Chapters 33 and 35 of Tite 18. 2. In Section 2 of HS 1 for HB 200, corrects "individual" to "group and blanket" health insurance policies regulated under Chapter 35 of Title 18. 3. In Section 2 of HS 1 for HB 200, removes the cost-sharing limitation exception for catastrophic plans because catastrophic plans are individual health plans. 4. In Section 4 of HS 1 for HB 200, for purposes of clarity, adds that the coverage applies to all health benefit plans delivered or issued for delivery under § 505(3) of Title 31. 5. In Section 5 of HS 1 for HB 200, adding “issued” to the applicability date to clarify the Act applies to policies, contracts, or certificates that are newly issued after December 31, 2027.]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:11:56 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143017 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This House Amendment to House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 301 removes engaging in a “breach of peace” from the actions that constitute an offense under § 5138 of Title 15.]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:03:23 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143010 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment removes permanent absentee status from this Act.]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:58:34 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142998 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 150 clarifies that the authority of the courts applies to courthouses and judicial proceedings and the authority of the Industrial Accident Board applies to an Office of the Industrial Accident Board and to its administrative proceedings.]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:01:47 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142951 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to House Bill No. 133 does all of the following: (1) clarifies that the word “fee” as used in the hardship waiver statute does not include restitution; (2) clarifies that toll violations, offenses eligible for voluntary assessment, red light camera, and speed camera violations are not eligible for waiver or modification under this Act; (3) makes a technical correction; (4) exempts assessments related to the Victims Compensation Fund from the courts’ authority to waive, modify, and suspend fines and fees; and (5) removes an additional report required of the courts.]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:35:09 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142965 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment adds an effective date of July 1, 2026. ]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:55 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142938 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment requires that electric suppliers adopt the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Model Interconnection Procedures within 12 months of the Procedures' publishing date. It further provides that any deviation from the Procedures must be affirmatively approved by the utility's regulatory body in a formal proceeding. The utility regulating authority may also establish, monitor, and enforce mandatory interconnection application processing timelines and project milestones within its interconnection rules. Commission-regulated electric utilities may recover implementation costs including administrative fees, back-office technology upgrades, and customer system investments necessary to decrease overall project execution timelines. ]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:23:43 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142847 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that the statute does not prohibit any tax exempt organization from communicating with its employees about policy issues that are relevant to the organization, its mission, or the people the organization serves. ]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:59:08 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142952 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment makes a technical correction.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:25:29 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142917 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment makes a technical correction.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:24:42 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142500 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 63 changes the required advertising disclosures contained in House Bill No. 63. If an advertisement in this State depicts or advertises aerial fireworks, it must include a warning that fireworks are generally illegal without a permit in Delaware, that sparklers, poppers, and similar products may be illegal in Delaware, and that potential purchasers should check their local and state law before purchasing or using the advertised products. If an advertisement does not contain or depict aerial fireworks, it need only contain warnings that (1) fireworks may only be legally used in Delaware on July 4, the third day of Diwali, December 31, and January 1; (2) Delaware law limits the types of fireworks that may be used; (3) a permit may be required; and (4) potential purchasers should check their local and state laws before purchasing or using the advertised products. For billboard advertisements, a large and legible font must read “SOME FIREWORKS ARE ILLEGAL. CHECK LOCAL AND STATE LAWS BEFORE PURCHASING.” Where House Bill No. 63 changed the 30-day sales period prior to the 4 holidays during which fireworks can be used to a 15-day sales period, this Amendment leaves it as a 30-day sales period. Where House Bill No. 63 required that a person seeking to sell fireworks must apply for a permit 90 days before the sales period, this Amendment requires the application 60 days before the sales period. This Amendment further provides for two different categories of disclosures at the time of sale. For the sale of fireworks requiring a permit or otherwise containing pyrotechnic substances above the threshold limits allowable without a permit, the disclosure to buyers must include notice that (1) the fireworks may be illegal and illegal possession or use may result in financial penalties; (2) fireworks are dangerous and improper use may result in death or serious physical injury; (3) information on the safe usage and disposal of fireworks; and (4) a reminder that generally, fireworks are only legal on the third day of Diwali, July 4, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. For the sale of fireworks that individuals may use and possess without a permit, the disclosure to buyers must include (1) information on the safe usage and disposal of fireworks and (2) a reminder that generally, fireworks are only legal on the third day of Diwali, July 4, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:05:28 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142926 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment changes the start date for the scholarship created by HB 12 from the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year to the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. ]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:18:11 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142895 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment makes the following changes to Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 230, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1: (1) It restricts the subpoena power to non-residential properties only; (2) It clarifies that objections and exceptions to a subpoena will be handled under the pre-existing rules and standards of the courts for adjudicating administrative subpoenas, see, e.g., State v. AT&T, 253 A.3d 537 (Del. 2021) (adopting the procedures and substance followed by the federal courts in administrative subpoena enforcement); (3) Explicitly removes records produced under this section from the definition of public records for purposes of FOIA and requires such records to be treated confidentially and used and disseminated only for purposes relevant to assessment or valuation of real property; (4) sunsets this Act after 2 years unless otherwise provided by a subsequent act of the General Assembly; (5) requires a report from each county after 1 year regarding implementation of this Act.]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:13:03 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142850 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This House Amendment to Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 228 clarifies that the quality control review parameters articulated in Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 228 are not limitations on the power of New Castle County to otherwise make revisions and corrections to property assessments in the county and that New Castle County may conduct additional quality control review where it appears that an error or mistake in valuation may have occurred. The amendment also adds a whereas clause that references the existing “fair market value” standard for valuation contained in the Delaware Code.]]> Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:04:14 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142759 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment does all of the following: (1) Provides a citation that supports the evidence offered in a Whereas clause. (2) Adds to the Whereas clauses Delaware Department of Education (Department) post-survey data results from teachers, staff, and students, who participated in the School Cell Phone Pilot Program. (3) Adds definitions. (4) Requires school district and charter school policies to include a plan to monitor discipline data related to student cell phone use policy violations. (5) Requires the Department to assist with the development of cell phone use policies by providing school districts and charter schools with model language that the school districts and charter schools may use. This may promote consistency while preserving local control. (6) Incorporates the amendment proposed in HA 1 into this Amendment for ease and efficiency. HA 1 to SB 106, as amended, proposes to change the date that school districts and charter schools must post their adopted cell phone policies online from January 1, 2026, to August 31, 2026.]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:21 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142722 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment adds a sunset for the changes to bonus depreciation in House Bill No. 255, and requires the Department of Finance to present a report regarding the actual revenue impact of this bill, as well as updates on federal law and recommendations for future tax policy at the December 2027 DEFAC meeting. The decoupling from §§ 70301 and 70307, P.L. 119-21, will sunset after the 2030 tax year. This is when the provisions of P.L. 119-21 for qualified production property are scheduled to expire under federal law. Property placed in service during the decoupling period will continue to be treated under the same schedules for depreciation after the decoupling sunsets. Property placed in service thereafter shall be treated under the then-current federal law. The research and development changes in House Bill No. 255 apply only to the 2022 through 2025 tax years, so there is no need to sunset them. This amendment is identical to House Amendment No. 1 except that it adds the requirement that copies of the Department of Finance report to DEFAC must be delivered to the Chief Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate for distribution to all members of the General Assembly.]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:34:34 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142721 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment revises House Bill 255 for corporations taxed as separate entities, commonly called “C corporations” to limit the time interval for continuing the expensing provisions for domestic research and experimental expenditures under the provisions in place before Public Law 119-21 to a time interval ending on December 31, 2024, rather than one ending on December 31, 2025.]]> Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:31:14 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142695 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 242 changes the extended property tax payment deadline from October 30, 2025 to November 30, 2025. This Amendment also clarifies that State Division I funds requested by a school district in the event of a cash flow shortfall due to the extension of the deadline for tax payments for the 2025-2026 school tax year may be advanced by the State.]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:55:33 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142711 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment requires the real estate collecting authority (counties) to waive penalties for any residential taxpayer for county and school property taxes who enters into and complies with a payment plan until the act sunsets (3 years) instead of being limited to the year after reassessment. Additionally, this amendment allows any school district that suffers a cash flow shortfall of local school funds due to taxpayers in a school district entering into payment plans, to request an advance of State Division I funds.]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:50:10 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142707 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment authorizes all 3 counties to accept tax payments on a quarterly or more frequent basis.]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:36:56 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142700 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment includes county taxes, as well as school taxes, in the payment plans authorized by § 8604 of Title 9. This Amendment also creates § 8701(d) of Title 9 to provide immediate relief for homeowners who have received substantially increased tax bills after the recent general reassessment in New Castle County. For county and school taxes assessed on residential property for the 2025-2026 tax year, New Castle County is prohibited from collecting unpaid county and school taxes from a taxpayer’s real or personal property, if the taxpayer has entered into a tax payment plan and complies with the payment plan. ]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:30:05 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142657 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes the requirement that the report include an explanation of how each vote is in the interest of the public.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:47:23 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142666 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to Senate Joint Resolution No. 7 clarifies that the strategies and policies guiding the work of the State Employee Benefits Commission with respect to pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical benefit managers must be informed by consideration of applicable State and federal law.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:43:16 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142658 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment replaces the term "medical services, products, and devices" with the term "health-care services" which is already a defined term in the Medical Debt Protection Act. It means "services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a physical, dental, behavioral, substance use disorder, or mental health condition, illness, injury, or disease. These services include any procedures, products, devices, or medications." This amendment also makes a technical correction.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:19:51 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142605 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes the word "tracks" at line 25 and also updates the definition for a "course of conduct" to be in line with existing law that requires statements or communications under investigation be evaluated based on the subjective intent of the defendant rather than the objective intent. ]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:05:56 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142672 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment makes technical corrections and adds language referencing excise taxes due on sales to residents of this State as required by § 581(b) of Title 4.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:38:52 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142671 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment provides that this Act will sunset and no longer be of force and effect beginning January 1, 2027, except with respect to conditional use applications granted, deemed approved, or applied for and therefore subject to this Act prior to that date.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:15:14 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142669 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes "offenses against law-enforcement animals" from the list of offenses requiring an individual to be placed on an animal abuse offender list. ]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:39:39 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142361 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment removes the exception that allows schools that do not presently have websites not to comply with the legislation. ]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:34:06 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142648 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes technical corrections to HJR 7. ]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:22:06 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142642 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment gives exclusive jurisdiction to the Superior Court over violations of this section.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:59:45 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142650 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies that in addressing a motion for sentence modification under compassionate release, the court must consider the underlying circumstances and nature of the offense, the felony classification of the offense, and the length of the underlying sentence in addition to the other requirements contained in Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 10.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:47:48 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142624 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment allows for private contributions to the Delaware Energy Fund. Under this amendment a utility may make a contribution to the fund to be restricted solely for the use of that utility’s customers who qualify under this Act.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:30:40 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142580 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment provides additional consumer protections to the Delaware Self-Service Storage Facilities Act by eliminating oral rental agreements, expanding the time frame for notice from 14 to 35 days, and ensuring that owners provide notice of any reasonable restrictions on the use of self-storage facilities.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:25:46 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142635 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment replaces language about federal agencies with specific reference to request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or Customs and Border Protection.]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:55:48 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142634 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment does the following: 1) Makes reports of requests for assistance from any State law enforcement agency related to stopping any individual based purely on suspicion of undocumented status only required if there is a finding that such activity is occurring. 2) Add the provisions that reports under this Act are not required in investigations of human trafficking. 3) Provides that personal identifying information of any subject of the request should not be provided. 4) The Department of Justice must promulgate regulations or an instructional memorandum to state agencies to effectuate the reporting requirements of the Act. ]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:53:36 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142628 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies that the Uniform Public Expression Act ("Act") does not apply to a cause of action: (1) By a governmental unit or an employee or agent of a governmental unit acting in an official capacity to enforce any law, regulation, or ordinance; (2) Based on a common law fraud claim; or (3) Alleging a violation of either Subchapter II or III of Chapter 25 of Title 6 of the Delaware Code. However, the Act does apply to such actions when the cause of action is a legal action against a person related to the communication, gathering, receiving, posting, or processing of consumer opinions or commentary, evaluations of consumer complaints, or reviews or ratings of businesses. This Amendment is substantively similar to House Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 80; however, it makes necessary technical corrections to citations and to include a citation to § 6002(d) of Title 6, created by this Amendment, in § 6007(a)(1) of Title 6. ]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:27:03 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142545 Delaware House - Passed Legislation 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.]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:20:54 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142606 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment deletes the provisions in Senate Bill No. 60 and in Senate Amendment No. 2 to Senate Bill No. 60 that place a cap on annual capital expenses in the amount of $125 million for electric distribution companies.  ]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:19:22 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142541 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment deletes instructional language that was duplicative and potentially confusing.]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:16:26 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142598 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies that the member of the House of Representatives and the member of the Senate who is appointed by the President Pro Tempore shall be co-chairs and will be responsible for coordinating and convening a date, time, and place for the initial organizational meeting. It also adds the Delaware State Police Superintendent and the Director of the Delaware Office of Highway Safety to the Task Force.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:31:57 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142601 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment changes the effective date until January 1, 2026, to allow the Division of Revenue additional time to communicate with taxpayers, update forms, and modify the tax system used to report and collect the fee.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:27:40 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142542 Delaware House - Passed Legislation 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.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:26:34 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142571 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes the changes to Title 3 from House Bill No. 210.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:06:23 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142576 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to House Bill No. 182 clarifies which agreements are prohibited, eliminates a provision relating to information sharing, and adds a provision clarifying that the section is not intended to prohibit enforcement of valid court-issued warrants or orders or to prohibit compliance with information sharing required under other federal law, particularly that related to the Criminal Justice Information System. It also changes the date for exercise of termination of any existing agreements to 30 days after the effective date of the Act.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:27:51 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142547 Delaware House - Passed Legislation 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.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:22:32 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142610 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes the following changes to HS 2 to HB 70: (1) Removes the requirement that landlords request lead-abatement or remediation work at least 4 months prior to the certification deadline in order to obtain a deferment. (2) Requires the Department to provide 30 days advance notice to a landlord that misses a certification deadline prior to an assessment of a civil penalty. Provides the landlord with the opportunity to fix the violation or request a deferment prior to the assessment of a civil penalty. (3) Clarifies that the feasibility review committee be composed of one small property owner (or a representative of a small property owner), and a large property owner (or a representative of a large property owner). (4) Clarifies that one member of the feasibility review committee must be a member of the House of Representatives and one member must be a member of the Senate. (5) Adds additional questions that must be answered in the formal report issued by the feasibility review committee. ]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:44:08 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142618 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment strikes a section of the epilogue language that has technical issues. ]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:09:35 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142486 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that the prohibited action is discharging a firearm “towards” rather than “at” certain buildings or vehicles. It also adds schools and institutions of higher education to the list of targets prohibited by this section.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:27:27 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142561 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment allows a private citizen to assist a peace officer in executing an arrest or detention.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:16:00 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142569 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment moves the language providing that an accessible parking space sign must display the current maximum fines to Chapter 41 of Title 21. This is a technical amendment. ]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:31:47 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142385 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that an organization may be eligible for a grant-in-aid if it offers programs that are unduplicated by other state-supported agencies or satisfy unmet needs in the community. It also removes the restriction that would prohibit a grant-in-aid to support child daycare.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:15:33 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142549 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment adds a "whereas" clause and replaces a resolution clause with language that acknowledges the active participation and consultation of utilities.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:07:57 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142562 Delaware House - Passed Legislation 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. This Amendment further provides that on cancellation of a contract for participation in a marketing program, the multilevel distribution company must agree to repurchase only goods received within the past 12 months.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:48:47 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142550 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment removes Section 5 of H.B. 205, relating to the production of medical records by healthcare providers. ]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:28:46 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142475 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment removes the language in H.B. 205 that limited the scope of Section 2535 of Title 18 to professional liability insurance only. ]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:27:24 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142558 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 171 replaces the term "guidance counselors" with "school counselors" and clarifies that only schools that offer the volunteer credit are required to inform students of the option to earn the credit and that they may be able to volunteer for a local fire department.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:23:12 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141951 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment names this Act "DJ's Act" after the advocate and their children who inspired it. ]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:16:24 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142473 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that an AED needs to be accessible during school sponsored athletic events and practices.]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:03:15 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142368 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment adds a separate, additional registration fee of $15 for a motorcycle that is also an electric motor vehicle, other fuel vehicle, non-plug-in electric vehicle, or a plug-in electric vehicle. It also clarifies that a moped is exempt from the additional registration fee under the Act. ]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:17:29 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142525 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment changes the Class H inspection review fee for septic from $250 to $100.]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:11:33 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142472 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment requires that the Public Health Emergency Planning Council meet within 15 days of the initiation of a state of emergency due to a public health emergency, rather than 30 days. ]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:35:14 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142452 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment does all of the following: (1) Requires property transferred by a transfer on death deed to be inventoried along with other property of the deceased owner (“transferor”) if a probate estate is opened for the transferor with the Register of Wills. (2) Makes clear that the executor or administrator of the transferor’s estate has authority to access and safeguard personal property of the transferor held by the transferor at the time of death on real property titled in the transferor’s own name transferred at the transferor’s death by a transfer on death deed. (3) Makes clear that a valid transfer on death deed transfers the real property immediately on the transferor’s death and that the failure to file a notice form, death certificate, or inventory form under § 218 of Title 12, created by Hosue Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 147, does not invalidate an otherwise valid transfer on death deed.]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:11:48 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142375 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment provides that the special license plate created to commemorate Delaware’s 250th anniversary of Separation Day and America’s semiquincentennial is available until December 31, 2026, and directs how moneys remaining in the Delaware 250 Fund are to be allocated.]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 17:40:34 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142236 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies that the notice requirement for leases of State owned land apply to both short- and long-term leases. This Amendment also provides an exception to the notice requirement when a lease is being renewed and the tenant is not changing.]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 17:36:52 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142350 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment lowers the top speed of a "low-speed scooter" from 19 mph to 15 mph and requires operators to be at least 14 years old. This Amendment also makes a technical correction. ]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 17:32:11 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142387 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that subsequent criminal history information should be provided to child-serving entities for current employees and contractors that have been background checked under this provision.]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 17:22:42 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142389 Delaware House - Passed Legislation In keeping with Delaware bill-drafting standards, in subsections (2) and (3), this amendment seeks to replace the term "should" with the term "may". It also clarifies that nothing in this section is intended to override or negate any provision of state law relating to material that is in violation of Title 11, Chapter 5, Subchapter 7, Subpart C. ]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 16:56:00 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142388 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that residents that pay a library district tax to support a municipal library may submit an objection to material in that library.]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 16:53:00 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142345 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment removes DOC libraries from the requirements of the bill. The DOC, however, is encouraged to work with the Division of Libraries to fully implement special professional library services on behalf of their constituents. ]]> Thu, 22 May 2025 16:41:18 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142189 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to House Substitute No. 1 to House Bill No. 1 makes several technical corrections. It also adds the Controller General or the Controller General’s designee to the list of individuals that must be consulted in development of the Transition Report and explicitly requires the Transition Report to include cost projections for the transition. The enactment clause is changed so that the Act takes effect upon enactment with 180 days for implementation. Finally, the time when the Transition Report must be presented to the General Assembly is shortened from 1 year in advance of the transition to 6 months in advance of the transition.]]> Tue, 20 May 2025 17:05:38 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142239 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to Senate Bill No. 49 corrects the accidental strike through of "is a" on line 58. ]]> Thu, 08 May 2025 17:45:02 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142058 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Act clarifies that DSCYF staff that work in schools are considered "other student support personnel" and are required to hold a permit or other applicable license if they are to have direct, unsupervised contact with students.]]> Tue, 06 May 2025 16:50:47 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142132 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to HB 79 does the following: - Incorporates the amendments made in HA 1 into this Amendment for ease and efficiency. HA 1 added language to ensure that the law conforms to the current practice regarding school resource officer temporary absences. It also changed the effective date from August 1, 2025, to August 1, 2026, to provide the Department of Education with additional time to prepare to implement HB 79. - Adds a paragraph a. so paragraphs (c)(2)b. and (c)(2)c. can be added. - Adds paragraph (c)(2)b. which requires the Department of Education to get data that the Police Officer Standards and Training Commision collects relating to use of restraint and seclusion. - Adds paragraph (c)(2)c. which requires the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission to provide that data to the Department of Education. Paragraph (c)(2)c.2. requires the inclusion of additional information related to mechanical restraint. - This Amendment requires the Department of Education to incorporate the data it receives from the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission into the annual report required under § 4112F of Title 14. ]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:21:50 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142118 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Joint Resolution 2 adds to the required reporting requirement that DHSS shall provide a comparison of the costs and benefits of implementing the Restaurant Meals Program in some zip codes as opposed to statewide, and if the decision is that starting with tailored zip codes is preferable, the steps that will be taken to ensure statewide implementation is possible in the future. This Amendment breaks the reporting requirements into 2 clauses for readability and also corrects a typographical error. ]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:09:07 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142126 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies that the Delaware Energy Fund will not make a grant of assistance to an individual or family that is eligible for financial assistance from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:48:39 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142123 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies the connection point at which the landlord's responsibility ends.]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:44:08 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142015 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment revises House Bill 19 to make clear that subsequent criminal history will not be provided with respect to individuals not actively employed or engaged by the Department of Finance.]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:39:20 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142131 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes the provision relating to annually adjusting the tax by the Consumer Price Index.]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:34:37 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142021 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment removes the tax provisions from the bill, leaving the current tax restrictions in the Code.]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:52:31 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142083 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 64 changes the effective date to September 2, 2025. ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:26:32 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142077 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes the following changes to HS 1 to HB 62: 1. Requires the utility company to measure the daily temperature from an airport in the same county as the subject dwelling, rather than a location within 50 miles of the subject dwelling; 2. Requires the electric company to make 2, rather than 3, documented attempts to contact the account holder prior to termination of services during the heating season; 3. Changes the term "adult occupant of the dwelling unit" to the "account holder"; 4. Increases the Heat Index (determining when electric utilities may be shut off) from 90 degrees to 95 degrees; 5. Removes the requirement that written notice during the heating or cooling season be sent via First Class mail; 6. Changes the Act's effective date from 60 to 90 days after its enactment into law; and 7. Authorizes a utility company to shut off utility services on a weekend if the utility company provides facilities for payment and restoration of services on weekends.]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:24:46 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=142028 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment to House Bill No. 67 limits the exemption contained in the original bill for towing of vehicles under other chapters and sections of Title 21 (pertaining to abandoned vehicles, vehicles parked on public highways, unpaid parking tickets, and parking in fire lanes) to the provisions of the bill pertaining to pre-towing requirements, consent requirements, and incomplete tows. It also adds the towing of motor vehicles by a municipality authorized to tow a vehicle under a municipal ordinance, code, or regulation permitting the towing of a vehicle due to unpaid parking tickets or traffic citations to this exemption, and allows the towing of an abandoned vehicle under a municipal ordinance, code, or regulation equivalent to Chapter 44 of Title 21. Under this amendment, all tow companies and storage companies, regardless of how the tow was initiated, must comply with the consumer protections required after a tow is completed, such as allowing customers to retrieve personal belongings and not imposing excessive storage fees.]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:37:57 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141965 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes clear that House Bill No. 38 applies to any institution of higher education regarding an employee paid in whole or in part with State funds, not just the University of Delaware and Delaware State University.]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:57:48 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141919 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment clarifies that non-analog as well as analog devices may be provided by the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to provide access to telecommunications service by residents of Delaware with deafness, hearing loss, or speech disabilities. ]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:50:11 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141847 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment adds a definition for the term "institution of higher education," and clarifies the definitions for the terms "political subdivision of this State" and "state agency."]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:45:43 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141890 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment makes a technical correction.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:29:40 -0400 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141837 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment to House Bill No. 33 clarifies that the Alderman's court may hear cases brought under an ordinance of the City of Newark that criminalizes or imposes a civil penalty for conduct that would constitute a crime or civil violation under Title 16, Section 4764 of the Delaware Code when the person charged is 18 years of age or older. This amendment further clarifies that the Alderman's Court and Court of Common Pleas shall have concurrent jurisdiction of crimes charged under a Newark ordinance criminalizing conduct that would constitute a violation of Section 4764(b) or (d), and the Alderman's Court and Justice of the Peace Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction over civil violations charged under a Newark ordinance imposing a civil penalty for conduct that would constitute a violation of Section 4764(c).]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:19:35 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141843 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment requires that the DOE include in education-related data that the DOE must publish online, information relating to girls, boys, and co-ed sports and other extracurricular activities. ]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:14:12 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141845 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment adds a retired judicial officer with knowledge of human trafficking to the membership of the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council. This amendment also makes technical corrections to conform with the Legislative Drafting Manual.]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:09:33 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141809 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This amendment clarifies a reason a registered voter in the State's Voter Registration System may be challenged in a Town election.]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:47:09 -0500 153 https://www.legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=141792 Delaware House - Passed Legislation This Amendment makes the effective date of Sections 2 through 4 June 2, 2025. ]]> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:58:19 -0500 153