Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB43
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/14/25
Engrossed
1/30/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/11/25
This Act limits the ability to set professional standards and licensing requirements for plumbing or HVACR licensees to the Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Examiners. This Act requires a 2/3 vote requirement because it indirectly impacts a municipal charter.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
This Act makes changes to the Diamond State Port Corporation (Corporation). Specifically, this Act does the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB45
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
This bill adds a new crime of application insurance fraud under the criminal code to include fraudulent statements submitted in support of an application to obtain or renew insurance or made for purposes of obtaining a commission or other payment from an insurer. This bill makes application-related insurance fraud a class A misdemeanor unless the benefits wrongfully obtained or sought to be obtained is at least $1,000, in which case application insurance fraud is a class G felony.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB46
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/25/25
This Act prohibits any autonomous vehicle that requires a Class A commercial driver license without an O restriction from being operated on a Delaware highway for testing purposes, transporting goods, or transporting passengers without a human safety operator being physically present within the autonomous vehicle. A two-thirds vote requirement is required under Section 28 of Article IV of the Delaware Constitution.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB47
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
This Act establishes that State government offices are to close when a National Day of Mourning is declared due to the death of a current or former President.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB48
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/13/25
This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Intentional interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exit after being lawfully ordered to do so by the school bus driver; wrongfully restricting the movement of a school bus; or threatening the school bus driver, a student, or any passenger entering, leaving, or waiting for a school bus. A student or passenger otherwise authorized to be on the school bus in the ordinary course of business may not be guilty of disorderly conduct for intentional interference with the operation of a school bus.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Enrolled
5/8/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/22/25
In a state of emergency, getting information to the public as quickly as possible is vital to the safety of the community. This Act provides protections to those who provide these essential communication and broadcasting services by deeming them "first informers." Under this Act, first informers are exempt from driving restrictions that the Governor may impose during a state of emergency.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Like Senate Bill No. 5, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB50
Introduced
1/23/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
Refer
1/28/25
Enrolled
1/30/25
Passed
2/14/25
This Act amends the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (1) authorize local bond shares to adjust for William Penn High School in the Colonial School District. Further, this Act amends Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (2) authorize the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with concurrence of the Controller General and the Co-Chairs of the Joint Committee on Capital, to transfer any necessary spending authority from the Cultural Access Fund; (3) revise allocations to the City of Dover and Downtown Dover Partnership; (4) revise the allocation for the University of Delaware for Deferred Maintenance from Laboratories to Campus Improvements; (5) revise the State and Local share allocations for the Smyrna Roof Replacement project and authorizes School Construction Market Pressure to be transferrable between Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024 to achieve allocations; (6) adjust School Safety and Security funding from the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, Delaware State Police, Special Investigation to reflect State Bureau of Identification; (7) removes the requirement of school districts and charter schools to obligate prior fiscal year MCI funds prior to utilizing Enhanced MCI; (8) authorize the transfer of any remaining funds from Legislative Hall major and minor capital improvement appropriations to be used for the Legislative Hall Garage/Expansion project; (9) authorize the transfer of any remaining funds from the Domestic Violence Coordinating Feasibility Study to the Criminal Justice Council for Family Justice Center startup costs; (10) authorizes the transfer of funds allocated for the Scannell Readiness Center and up to $500,000 of available Minor Capital Improvements to cover the project for the Bethany Beach Training Barracks; (11) authorizes funds from Capital School Districts Certificate of Necessity (CN 2113A) to be used to support new facilities for the Kent County Community School and Kent County Secondary ILC; (12) authorize the Department of Transportation to use Community Transportation Funds for one-time reimbursements for various projects; (13) reprograms funding from the Community Redevelopment/Reinvestment Fund from Downtown Milford, Inc. to the Delaware State Fair, the Milford District Fee Public Library Commission, and Kent Sussex Industries; (14) authorize the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to perform an adaptive reuse study for the Delaware State Police Troop 7; and (15) remove the deadline date requiring Sussex County Council to adopt § 6961, Title 9 of the Delaware Code.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB51
Introduced
1/23/25
Introduced
5/15/25
Refer
1/23/25
Engrossed
5/15/25
Failed
5/8/25
Refer
5/20/25
This Act is a Substitute for and differs from Senate Bill No. 51 by removing the retroactive effective date.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB52
Introduced
1/28/25
Refer
1/28/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/15/25
Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is under age 65 and limits annual earnings by temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employees to $50,000 before an individuals earnings affect the amount of the individuals pension.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB54
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
Refer
4/9/25
Enrolled
5/6/25
Passed
5/22/25
This Act is from the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee, to remove the provision that a committee member who participates virtually in a committee meeting is not counted toward quorum.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB55
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
This Act prohibits gender transition surgery for children due to the potential for an irrevocable procedure occurring when there is a significant probability that children will come to identify with their biological gender.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB56
Introduced
2/20/25
Introduced
5/20/25
Introduced
6/10/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
5/20/25
Refer
6/10/25
This Act updates the procedures governing the transfer of a manufactured home located in a manufactured home community in order to provide a clearer process and reduce ambiguities that allowed some community owners to prevent the transfer of a lease or a home as well as prevent family members from inheriting the investment made by a deceased family member in a home.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB57
Introduced
2/20/25
Introduced
5/14/25
Refer
2/20/25
This Act updates Title 11 of the Delaware Code concerning postconviction remedies relating to DNA testing and evidence.