Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB125
Introduced
5/6/25
Refer
5/6/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Refer
6/11/25
This Act updates the Board of Dietetics/Nutrition enabling act, requiring applicants to obtain a minimum of a masters degree to obtain a license. This change would make Delaware consistent with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), the credentialing agency of the American Dietetic Association. Beginning on January 1, 2024, CDR required a minimum of a masters degree in order to become registered. Under the current law, holders of a CDR registration are considered to automatically meet the qualifications for licensure in Delaware, and applicants who are certified by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists must also acquire a minimum of a masters degree. This Act ensures Delaware is consistent with the current national standards for licensure and registration as a Dietitian or Nutritionist. Finally, the Act eliminates an outdated application provision.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB126
Introduced
5/6/25
Refer
5/6/25
This Act will allow voters in primary and general elections to vote at any polling place in their county of residence. The Acts goal in doing so is to increase access to voting by giving voters the ability to vote at the polling place in their county that is most convenient to them. This Act also gives the State Election Commissioner the authority to consolidate polling places into centrally located centers for voting, as long as each election district retains at least one polling place and the consolidation of polling places does not result in an undue burden on voters access to polling places.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB127
Introduced
5/6/25
Refer
5/6/25
This Act amends the New Castle City Charter to provide that the New Castle City Council may impose and collect a tax of no more than 5% on the gross rents within city boundaries. The tax may not apply to rental properties that are directly subsidized by federal, state, or City of New Castle rental assistance funding.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB128
Introduced
5/6/25
Refer
5/6/25
Refer
5/21/25
This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to submit a Medicaid State Plan Amendment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to be allowed to provide comprehensive dental benefits to Medicaid-eligible adults.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB129
Introduced
5/7/25
Refer
5/7/25
Engrossed
5/20/25
Refer
5/21/25
Senate Bill 166, passed in 2022, created the Prescription Opioid Impact Fund as part of an overall structure that would both maximize the monies paid by settling Opioids defendants to Delaware and to create a structure whereby those settlement monies could be managed and distributed on a statewide basis through a stakeholder-informed process. The complete legislation is found at Title 16 of the Delaware Code, Chapter 48B, Sections 4801B through 4809B. Chapter 48B applied to settlements with entities, and did not apply to bankruptcies. This is because the bankruptcy process itself extinguishes claims and thus provides the necessary global peace for settling parties. At the time SB 166 was passed, it was contemplated that, in the context of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy, the Sackler family members would obtain this type of bankruptcy-style discharge and release. However, in the summer of 2024, the United States Supreme Court ruled that such a discharge was impermissible. This decision thus required that the states negotiate a non-bankruptcy settlement with the Sacklers, which the Delaware Department has since been pursuing diligently.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB130
Introduced
5/7/25
Refer
5/7/25
This Act prohibits retail stores and wholesalers from selling, distributing, or offering for sale expanded polystyrene foam products, including expanded polystyrene foam food service packaging, expanded polystyrene foam coolers used for cold storage of food, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fill packaging. Expanded polystyrene foam packaging such as single use expanded polystyrene foam food containers or loose fill expanded polystyrene foam products such as packing peanuts are difficult to recycle and are not accepted in Delawares 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 foam products, this Act helps to protect the environment from harmful waste.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB131
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Refer
6/11/25
This Act expands the definition of the practice of dental hygiene under Title 24 (Professions and Occupations) to include the administration of local anesthesia under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist and directs the State Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (Board) to establish the necessary requirements and standards. Currently, Delaware is the only state in the nation that does not allow dental hygienists to administer local anesthesia. Delaware also suffers from a shortage of dental care providers, leaving many Delawareans unable to access timely, quality, affordable dental care. Administering local anesthesia is a task that properly trained dental hygienists can do safely, as shown by the experiences of every other state. Expanding dental hygienists scope of practice to allow them to administer local anesthesia under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist will enable them to provide a broader range of services to patients and take some of the burden off the states limited supply of dentists.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB132
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
Engrossed
5/21/25
Refer
5/22/25
This Act updates the Right to Representation statute by moving certain duties to the office of the State Courts Administrator and clarifies terminology used within the statute.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB133
Introduced
5/9/25
Refer
5/9/25
Engrossed
5/21/25
Refer
5/22/25
This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Delaware Cemetery Board. Based on the Committee's recommendation, this Act changes the Office of Auditor of Account's obligation to audit the Distressed Cemetery Fund from annually to at least once every 5 years. This Act also updates the name of the Office of Auditor of Accounts.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB134
Introduced
5/9/25
Introduced
5/22/25
Refer
5/9/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Under Chapter 69 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code, the Section of Government Support Services in the Office of Management and Budget ("Section") is responsible for effectuating the States procurement process.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB135
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view applications for grants-in-aid and to develop and recommend to the Joint Finance Committee the grants-in-aid appropriations bill.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB136
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
This Act adopts a recommendation made by the Delaware Compensation Commission in its January 6, 2025, report. Specifically, this Act changes the minimum amount of pension payable to a member of the General Assembly elected after February 28, 2025, because the pension amount will no longer be calculated by multiplying the elected officials years of service as an elected member of the General Assembly times the highest rate of payment being paid to any retired member of the General Assembly. Instead, the pension payable to an elected official of the General Assembly elected on or after February 28, 2025, shall be computed under § 5527(a)(1) of Title 29.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB137
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
Earned Wage Access (EWA) is a Fintech product that allows workers to voluntarily access the money they have already earned during a pay-period for work they have already completed, ahead of their scheduled payday. Users primarily access EWA services through a mobile app and are only able to withdraw wages their EWA provider has verified that they have already earned. This verification process, coupled with the fact that EWA transactions are non-recourse and credit-invisible make the product distinct from loans and credit cards.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB138
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Refer
6/11/25
This Act makes changes to Chapter 103 of Title 16, pertaining to the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN).
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB139
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
Refer
5/15/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
6/5/25
This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following: