Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB182
Introduced
6/10/25
Refer
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Refer
6/12/25
This Act allows drug manufacturers or their agents and wholesalers to ship dialysate drugs and devices directly to home dialysis patients without a pharmacy license.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB183
Introduced
6/11/25
Refer
6/11/25
On February 18, 2025, the City of Harrington passed Resolution 25-R-02 to seek support from the General Assembly to amend the City Charter. This Act amends the City of Harrington Charter, as requested by the City Council, by doing all of the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB184
This Act creates the legal framework for serving a correctional officer when they are employed by the State and when they are no longer employed by the State.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB185
This Act would allow valid on-premise license holders to sell 1 bottle of a private label spirit purchased from a Delaware licensed importer that is either limited availability or limited allocation.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB186
Introduced
6/12/25
Refer
6/12/25
This Act identifies evidence that communications were sent relating to a security deposit. It also allows for the required communications to be sent electronically if it can be shown by the party utilizing electronic communications that the parties regularly communicated by a particular method and that the electronic communication was received by the other party.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB187
Introduced
6/13/25
Refer
6/13/25
The Department of Education (Department) currently administers the High Needs Educator Student Loan Repayment Program, the Speech-Language Pathologist Student Loan Repayment Program, and the Mental Health Services Student Loan Repayment Program.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB2
Introduced
1/3/25
Introduced
4/9/25
Refer
1/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 2. This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 2 in that it incorporates technical corrections made to the Delaware Constitution by House Bill No. 10 (153rd General Assembly).
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB20
Introduced
1/30/25
Refer
1/30/25
Refer
3/19/25
The State of Delaware previously offered an employer match for state employee contributions to the deferred compensation program. The purpose of the match was to help state employees save and build wealth for retirement and to enable state government to recruit and retain talent by offering a valuable retirement savings benefit. In July 2008, during the Great Recession, the State suspended the employer match to cut costs. Every year since fiscal year 2008, the General Assembly has written in the annual appropriations bill: It is the intent of the General Assembly that this program be reinstated when funding becomes available.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB21
Introduced
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Section 1 of this Act amends § 144 of Title 8 to provide safe harbor procedures for acts or transactions in which one or more directors or officers as well as controlling stockholders and members of control groups have interests or relationships that might render them interested or not independent with respect to the act or transaction. Under revised § 144(a), certain acts or transactions involving such directors or officers will be protected if approved or recommended by a majority of the disinterested directors, either serving on a board of directors or a committee of the board of directors, or approved or ratified by a majority of the votes cast by the disinterested stockholders entitled to vote thereon, in each case upon disclosure or in full knowledge of the material facts giving rise to the conflict or potential conflict. If a majority of the directors are not disinterested directors with respect to the act or transaction, any such disinterested director approval or recommendation must be provided through a disinterested director committee. In addition, the amendments define what parties constitute a controlling stockholder or control group and provide safe harbor procedures that can be followed to insulate from challenge specified acts or transactions from which a controlling stockholder or control group receives a unique benefit. Under new § 144(b), a controlling stockholder transaction that does not constitute a going private transaction may be entitled to the statutory safe harbor protection if it is negotiated and approved or recommended, as applicable, by a majority of the disinterested directors then serving on the committee, or is conditioned on the approval or ratification by disinterested stockholders and is approved or ratified by a majority of the votes cast by the disinterested stockholders. Under new § 144(c), a controlling stockholder transaction that constitutes a going private transaction may be entitled to the statutory safe harbor protection if it is negotiated and approved or recommended, as applicable, by a majority of the disinterested directors then serving on the committee and is conditioned on the approval of or ratification by disinterested stockholders and is approved or ratified by a vote of a majority of the votes cast by the disinterested stockholders. With respect to any approval or recommendation by a committee, the safe harbor only applies if the act or transaction or controlling stockholder transaction, as applicable, was approved by a committee consisting of at least 2 directors, all of whom, in the first instance, have been determined by the board of directors to be disinterested directors. Revised § 144 provides that any approval or recommendation, as applicable, of disinterested directors or a disinterested director committee must be made in good faith and without gross negligence, making clear that the statute does not displace the common law requirements regarding core fiduciary conduct as contemplated by cases such as Flood v. Synutra International, Inc., 195 A.3d 754 (Del. 2018), and In re MFW Shareholders Litigation, 67 A.3d 496 (Del. Ch. 2013), aff'd sub nom., Kahn v. M & F Worldwide Corp., 88 A.3d 635 (Del.2014). Revised § 144 does not limit the right of any person to seek relief on the grounds that a stockholder or other person aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty by one or more directors. Consistent with existing case law, the stockholder or other person must have knowingly participated in a breach of fiduciary duty to establish an aiding and abetting claim. In re Mindbody, Inc., 2024 WL 4926910 (Del. Dec. 2, 2024). The amendments to § 144 also set forth criteria for determining the independence and disinterestedness of directors and stockholders. The amendments provide that controlling stockholders and control groups, in their capacity as such, cannot be liable for monetary damages for breach of the duty of care.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB24
Introduced
5/7/25
Refer
5/7/25
Engrossed
5/20/25
Refer
5/21/25
The language of this Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 25 of the 153rd General Assembly. The only difference between this Act and Senate Bill No. 25 is the title, which has been changed to clarify that the language includes the Public Employment Relations Act of Title 19.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB25
Introduced
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
This Act allows an employee organization to file a petition with the Board to become the exclusive representative of an appropriate bargaining unit for the purpose of collective bargaining. In the event an employee organization provides over 50% of the employees approval, through their authorized signatures, then the Board may not order an election but must certify the employee organization.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB26
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Under current Delaware law, if a labor dispute constitutes a lockout, employees who meet all other eligibility requirements qualify for unemployment benefits from the date they file their claim. However, if a labor dispute does not constitute a lockout, employees do not qualify for (i.e. are disqualified from receiving) unemployment benefits.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB27
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
3/19/25
This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB28
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Refer
6/11/25
Section 1 of this Act requires that $7,000 be paid for the funeral expenses of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB29
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
3/12/25
Section 1 of this Act increases to $10,000 the amount of funeral expenses which can be paid for the funeral of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue company. The amount of this benefit has not been increased since 2004 (See 74 Del. Laws, c. 339, § 1).