Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB43
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
5/13/25
Passed
5/22/25
This bill adopts an inmate mailbox rule similar to the federal inmate mailbox rule. If a pro se inmate files an appeal while incarcerated, the date of filing will be counted as the date that that the inmate gave the appeal to the DOC officials for mailing rather than the date that the Courts receive the appeal.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB44
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
This Act requires the State to have a migrant education program to ensure that migrant childrens educational needs are met. The program must provide the same services that were provided or were required to be provided under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on January 19, 2025. If federal funding is insufficient to meet the needs of migratory education, the Delaware Department of Education must identify, transfer, or request the appropriation of supplemental funding from the State or other sources to ensure no interruption in services.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB45
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
This Act requires payment card networks to make available to merchant acquirers the merchant category code for firearms and ammunition businesses that was established by the International Organization for Standardization on September 22, 2022 by July 1, 2025, and for merchant acquirers to assign the MCC for firearms and ammunition businesses to firearms merchants beginning October 1, 2025.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB46
Introduced
3/11/25
Introduced
3/18/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/18/25
Like House Bill 46, this Act ensures that no physician or medically authorized person shall perform an abortion upon a child under the age of 16 without having obtained parental consent, except in cases of medical emergency or if the Family Court adjudicates that the minor is mature and well-informed enough to make the decision independently, or obtaining parental consent is not in the best interest of the minor, such as in cases of abuse, neglect, or coercion.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB47
Introduced
3/6/25
Introduced
3/25/25
Refer
3/6/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/22/25
This Act incorporates changes made by HS1 for HB204, which was passed by both chambers during the 151st General Assembly, but never enacted into law. It removes the exemption for private schools and youth camps that allows them to use a name-based, rather than a fingerprint-based, background check or choose not to do background checks at all for employees, contractors and volunteers. This Act also authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations relating to re-use of a criminal background check. The State Bureau of Identification is also required to provide subsequent criminal history information to the agency receiving background check information. Authority is given to the Department of Education to pay the costs of background checks for its employees.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB48
Introduced
3/6/25
Introduced
4/17/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
4/17/25
HS 1 to HB 42 adds provisions to Title 21 to better regulate and enforce accessible parking spaces in Delaware. Although federal and state laws currently require specific design and construction requirements for accessible spaces, these laws are often ignored because of a lack of enforcement.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB49
Introduced
3/6/25
Introduced
3/13/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
This Act makes changes to the Delaware Child Care Act to clarify that early education programs run by state or local education agencies are subject to a parallel regulatory and monitoring structure administered by the Office of Child Care Licensing to ensure health, safety, and child development standards are met.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB5
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
This Act requires that an enacted state agency regulation will automatically expire unless explicitly reauthorized by the General Assembly to continue. This Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in review and oversight of regulations adopted by State agencies and recommend to the General Assembly whether or not the regulations should be allowed to expire.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB50
Introduced
2/19/25
Introduced
4/10/25
Refer
2/19/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 50 creates the Delaware Energy Fund to provide assistance to consumers whose household income is less than 350% of the federal poverty level. Under 2025 federal guidelines, 350% of the federal poverty level for a single person is $54,775 and for a family of four is $112,525. The Delaware Energy Fund will be administered by the SEU and recipients of assistance from the fund will also be required to participate in energy savings and efficiency programs. Only one assistance payment may be made per application.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB51
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Currently, the Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Progam offers teacher apprenticeships to aspiring educators in Delaware. This Act expands the Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to include paraprofessional apprenticeships (paraprofessional registered occupation programs) and registered youth apprenticeship programs that begin in high school. Under this Act, the DOE will work with the DOL to create at least 1 paraprofessional registered occupation pilot program for the 2025-2026 school year. To that end, the DOE, in partnership with the DOL, must apply for State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula Grants, both formula and competitive funding, for the 2025-2026 school year, along with any other available state or federal funding.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB52
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
This Act changes the timeline for fiscal projections required under § 1901, § 1902, and § 1905 of Title 29 from 3 years to 5 years. It also changes the timeline for fiscal projections required under § 1903 of Title 29 from 1 year to 5 years.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB53
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Engrossed
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
This Act broadens the scope of a special fund administered by the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing that provides telecommunications assistance to Delaware residents who have deafness, hearing loss, or speech disabilities related to deafness or hearing loss. This Act authorizes the office to provide residents with assistive devices that facilitate communication or provide users with information pertaining to emergencies. It also authorizes the Office to employ individuals to administer the program, provide education, and manage program resources. This Act adds restrictions on how money in the Fund may be spent and requires a three-month reserve be maintained to ensure financial solvency of the Fund.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB54
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/20/25
This Act establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention to address suicide prevention and to do the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB55
Introduced
3/6/25
Introduced
4/15/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
4/15/25
This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding military status as a protected class for purposes of the States public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB56
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Engrossed
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Excess skin and subcutaneous tissue can create a risk of rashes or infections, make walking and movement difficult, and make everyday chores difficult. An example of treatment that removes excess skin and subcutaneous tissue is a panniculectomy. A panniculectomy is an operative procedure that contours, or changes the shape and form, of the abdomen by removing significant excess skin and subcutaneous tissue. Removal of excess skin and subcutaneous tissue can improve a patients health and quality of life.