All Bills - Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB14
Introduced
2/29/24
Introduced
2/29/24
Engrossed
4/16/24
Refer
2/29/24
Engrossed
4/16/24
Enrolled
6/30/24
Refer
4/16/24
Enrolled
6/30/24
Passed
11/1/24
This Act creates a new license for the use of trotlines in commercial crabbing. This Act prohibits a person from possessing a commercial crab pot license and trotline license at the same time.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB140
Introduced
5/2/23
Introduced
5/2/23
Engrossed
4/18/24
Refer
5/2/23
Engrossed
4/18/24
Failed
6/20/24
Refer
4/18/24
Enrolled
6/25/24
Failed
6/20/24
Enrolled
6/25/24
Vetoed
9/20/24
This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attending advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) and a consulting physician or consulting APRN agree on the individual's diagnosis and prognosis and believe the individual has decision-making capacity, is making an informed decision, and is acting voluntarily.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB141
Introduced
5/9/23
Introduced
5/9/23
Engrossed
6/8/23
Refer
5/9/23
Engrossed
6/8/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Refer
6/8/23
Enrolled
6/30/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Passed
8/31/23
Enrolled
6/30/23
Passed
8/31/23
This Act requires all candidates for statewide office, the General Assembly, and all elected county offices, to request a criminal history background check, no later than the filing deadline, from the State Bureau of Identification. The State Bureau of Identification must, within 10 days of receipt of the request, provide the Commissioner of Elections with a report of the candidates criminal history or a statement that the Bureaus Repository contains no information relating to the candidate. The Commissioner of Elections must then determine if the candidate is qualified under Section 21 of Article II of the Delaware Constitution to be considered a candidate and have their name appear on the ballot. The candidate will be considered a provisional candidate until the Commissioner of Elections determines the candidate is qualified. The information obtained by the Commissioner of Elections, from the Bureau, will not fall under the definition of public record in Chapter 100 of Title 29. The candidate must pay the cost of the criminal history background check, but the cost may be reimbursed from the candidates campaign funds as an authorized campaign expenditure. This Act will take effect January 1 after enactment.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB142
Introduced
6/7/23
Engrossed
6/15/23
Introduced
6/7/23
Engrossed
6/15/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Refer
6/15/23
Passed
9/21/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Passed
9/21/23
This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth of the victim is sufficient to explain, excuse, or justify the defendant's conduct, or contributes to or causes the defendant's mental state, or that the defendants reaction thereto constitutes a mental illness, mental defect, or mental disorder sufficient to excuse or justify the defendant's conduct (including under circumstances in which the victim made a nonviolent romantic or sexual advance toward the defendant or in which the defendant and the victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship). Sections 1 and 3 of this bill move the definitions for gender identity and sexual orientation currently in the hate crimes statute to the general definitions section of the Criminal Code to maintain standard definitions of these terms throughout the Criminal Code. Section 2 of this bill provides that in any prosecution or sentencing for an offense: (i) a defendant is not justified in using force against another based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; (ii) for the purposes of determining whether there is a reasonable explanation or excuse for the existence of extreme emotional disturbance or other asserted mitigating factor or circumstance, such explanation or excuse is not reasonable if it is based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; and (iii) a defendant does not suffer from a mental illness, mental defect, mental disorder, serious mental disorder, psychiatric disorder, or other impairment affecting or impacting the defendants mental state relating to any questions of intent, knowledge, capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the defendant's conduct, disturbance of the defendant's thinking, feeling or behavior, culpability, willpower to choose whether to do or refrain from doing an act, or ability to distinguish right from wrong, based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB143
Introduced
5/10/23
Introduced
5/10/23
Refer
5/10/23
Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. This Act caps interest rates at 20% for short-term consumer loans of $1,000 or less that must be repaid in less than 60 days and motor vehicle title loans.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB144
Introduced
5/10/23
Introduced
5/10/23
Engrossed
6/6/23
Refer
5/10/23
Engrossed
6/6/23
Enrolled
6/20/23
Refer
6/6/23
Passed
6/30/23
Enrolled
6/20/23
Passed
6/30/23
This Act increases the number of members of a limited liability corporation who are eligible for exemption from workers compensation reimbursement from four to eight, making the number equal to the number of officers in a traditional corporation who are eligible for exemption.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB145
Introduced
5/2/23
Introduced
5/2/23
Refer
5/2/23
Reverse-location court orders and reverse keyword court orders enable the government to obtain location data or technology search data without identifying any specific person as to which there is probable cause to believe they have committed or will imminently commit a crime. The profusion of electronic devices and apps in recent years has allowed recordation of numerous details of citizens everyday lives, that the government should not be permitted to collect and review at will. Such general searches allow the government to sweep in personal information about hundreds or thousands of people who are not suspected of having committed any crime. These searches are an invasion of privacy, have a potentially chilling effect on civil liberties, and sidestep requirements for individualized suspicion that are otherwise required for a lawful search. This Act would prohibit law enforcement and courts from requesting, issuing, or enforcing reverse-location court orders, reverse-keyword court orders, reverse-location requests and reverse keyword requests. It also creates a private right of action for an individual whose personal information was obtained in violation of this Act and requires the suppression of evidence derived from an unlawful reverse-location or reverse-keyword search.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB146
Introduced
5/10/23
Introduced
5/10/23
Engrossed
6/6/23
Refer
5/10/23
Engrossed
6/6/23
Enrolled
6/20/23
Refer
6/6/23
Passed
6/29/23
Enrolled
6/20/23
Passed
6/29/23
This bill increases the assessments charged to insurance companies to fund the increased costs of the operation of the Fraud Prevention Bureau.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB147
Introduced
4/16/24
Engrossed
6/18/24
Introduced
4/16/24
Engrossed
6/18/24
Refer
6/18/24
This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on death (TOD) deed designating a beneficiary who will automatically receive the real estate on the owner's death without a probate procedure. During the owner's lifetime the beneficiary of a TOD deed has no interest in the real estate and the owner retains full power to transfer or encumber the real estate or to revoke the deed.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB148
Introduced
5/11/23
Introduced
5/11/23
Engrossed
5/18/23
Refer
5/11/23
Refer
5/19/23
Engrossed
5/18/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Refer
5/19/23
Passed
7/21/23
Enrolled
6/28/23
Passed
7/21/23
This Act makes updates to Title 15 related to the efficient administration of elections.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB149
Introduced
3/12/24
Introduced
3/12/24
Refer
3/12/24
This Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax rate increases resulting from cost-of-living pay increases that push lower income taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This is referred to as "bracket creep". Cost-of-living pay increases are intended to offset inflation and not create a greater tax burden on lower income taxpayers. Social justice requires that lower income taxpayers should not face both inflation and higher tax rates at the same time. This Act will be effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2024.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB15
Introduced
2/29/24
Introduced
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/19/24
Refer
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/19/24
Enrolled
3/21/24
Refer
3/19/24
Enrolled
3/21/24
Passed
3/21/24
This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovarian cancer treatment.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB150
Introduced
5/10/23
Introduced
5/10/23
Refer
5/18/23
Refer
5/10/23
Refer
5/18/23
This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act. Many children who are undocumented do not have access to routine or preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and physicals, because they cannot afford the services. Instead they may rely upon emergency room visits when untreated conditions worsen. Providing publicly funded healthcare coverage to low-income children greatly improves their health and long-term outcomes. Medicaid coverage is linked to fewer chronic conditions, better overall health, improved oral health, and fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB151
Introduced
5/11/23
Introduced
5/11/23
Engrossed
6/22/23
Refer
5/11/23
Engrossed
6/22/23
Enrolled
6/29/23
Refer
6/22/23
Passed
9/21/23
Enrolled
6/29/23
Passed
9/21/23
This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible property of the petitioner includes legal documents belonging to the petitioner. In addition, this Act codifies the existing practice of Family Court to allow relief by ordering respondents to return specific legal documents. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
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Delaware 2023-2024 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB152
Introduced
6/2/23
Introduced
6/2/23
Refer
6/2/23
This Act revises the membership of the State Employee Benefits Committee by removing the Delaware retiree appointed by the Governor and adding 2 members who are eligible to receive health care insurance under Chapter 52 of Title 29 under a pension or retirement plan. The President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives each appoint 1 of these members.