Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB153
Introduced
5/1/25
Refer
5/1/25
This Act prohibits arrest or detention by any person who does not have explicit statutory authority to carry out an arrest or detention. The intent of this provision is to eliminate any doubt that a citizens arrest is not permitted in Delaware. Peace officers have statutory authority to make arrests, as do federal law enforcement agents and out-of-state police under some circumstances. There is also limited authority to detain a person suspected of shoplifting provided to a merchant, store supervisor, agent or employee of a merchant in § 840 of Title 11; to detain a person suspected of unlawful recording by a motion picture theater owner, supervisor, agent or employee under § 858 of Title 11; and to detain a person suspected of unlawful acts with a video lottery machine by a video lottery agent or any of its officers, employees or agents under § 1474 of Title 11.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB154
Introduced
5/1/25
Introduced
5/14/25
Refer
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/20/25
Refer
5/20/25
This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened. The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices. This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB155
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
This Act ensures that State Public Integrity Commission reports be made available to the public on the Commission's website.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB156
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
This Act updates Chapter 10A of Title 16, the Healthcare-Associated Infections Disclosure Act, to ensure consistency with correct terminology, such as psychiatric changes to behavioral health facilities and to adherence to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) requirements.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB157
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
This Act repeals the Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program, as the program is no longer operational. The Program was created pursuant to Volume 74, Chapter 109 of the Laws of Delaware (2003), for the purpose of lending hearing aids on a temporary basis to children under 3 years old. Loans were initially for 6 months with possible 3-month extensions granted by the Program Manager. The need for the Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program has steadily decreased over time and the Program is now obsolete. As a result, the Division of Public Health no longer stocks the Hearing Aid Loan Bank.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB158
Introduced
5/8/25
Refer
5/8/25
The Public Health Emergency Planning Commission was established in 2002 and directed to deliver to the Governor a plan for responding to a public health emergency that addressed at least 21 specific provisions. Since then, that single plan has evolved into an overarching Public Health Emergency Operations Coordination Plan, which is a strategic plan that provides a broad context for the execution of public health emergency response and recovery. There are over 70 additional plans or annexes that provide additional procedural guidance that have been developed by DHSS in partnership with other state agencies and external stakeholders such as hospitals.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB159
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/22/25
This Act gives a county, upon a county-wide reassessment of real property under § 8306(b) of Title 9, the authority to adopt an ordinance modifying the school property tax exemption amounts that were put in place on or before January 1, 1998. In doing so, this Act protects seniors and individuals with disabilities from significant school tax increases related to county-wide reassessments of property values.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB16
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
1/29/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
4/17/25
Passed
5/13/25
This Act adds a high school student to the AI Commission as a nonvoting member. The Chair of the Commission will appoint a student who is, or will be in the next school year, a tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade student in a public or private school in Delaware.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB160
Introduced
5/13/25
Refer
5/13/25
The Delaware National Guard provides financial assistance to eligible service members for certain postsecondary education tuition and fees. Under the current education benefits program, the Delaware National Guard reimburses service members for tuition and fees the service members have already paid. But young service members often cannot take advantage of this program because they cannot afford to pay upfront for tuition and fees. This also hurts Delaware National Guard recruiting efforts because potential service members may choose to join National Guard programs in other states that do not require service members to pay upfront for tuition and fees. Keeping the Delaware National Guard fully staffed is essential to responding to state emergencies. Lack of staff also leads the Department of Defense to shift positions from the Delaware National Guard to other states that can recruit at higher levels than Delaware. This results in reduced mission capability in Delaware and less federal funding coming to Delaware.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB161
Introduced
5/14/25
Refer
5/14/25
This Act clarifies the requirements regarding obtaining a permit to operate a funeral establishment.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB162
Introduced
5/14/25
Refer
5/14/25
This Act defines a multilevel distribution company and multilevel marketing program for purposes of this Subchapter.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB163
Introduced
5/15/25
Introduced
6/5/25
Refer
5/15/25
Refer
6/5/25
This Act provides a roadmap via an observational study on a small but representative group of diabetic patients to change standard healthcare from current reactive sick care to proactive well care. This will be accomplished by using a Delaware health system combined with a technology partner to regularly test, measure and manage, and incentivize diabetic patients and their providers to improve the health outcomes for Delawareans and drive down health care costs. The length of the observational study will be 3 years. During that time, data analysis will track results to determine if this Pilot Program shall be renewed and expanded.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB164
Introduced
5/15/25
Refer
5/15/25
The Department of Transportation commissioned a study which was performed by the University of Delaware which calculated the impact on the Transportation Trust Fund by the increase in registration of electric motor vehicles, plug-in electric motor vehicles, non-plug-in electric motor vehicles, and other fuel motor vehicles. The Transportation Trust fund is the source of funding for the Department to perform all road and bridge improvements in the State. This Act assesses an additional registration fee on owners of electric motor vehicles, plug-in electric motor vehicles, non-plug-in electric motor vehicles, and other fuel motor vehicles to make up for the declining motor fuel tax revenue impacts on the Department, as well as the increased costs associated with these types of vehicles which are generally heavier than traditional passenger motor vehicles with increasing roadway impacts.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB165
Introduced
5/15/25
Refer
5/15/25
This Act authorizes physician assistants, occupational therapists, and nurse practitioners to practice dry needling. This Act sets forth requirements and limitations pertaining to the practice of dry needling. Dry needling may not be performed without a physician referral, and physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and occupational therapists may not hold themselves out as acupuncturists unless they are licensed acupuncturists.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware House Bill HB166
Introduced
5/15/25
Refer
5/15/25
This Act changes the term child pornography to child sexual abuse material.