All Bills - Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB35
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
Refer
3/27/25
Agriculture is currently the leading industry in Delaware but as housing and other development occurs less farmland becomes available. For farmers in general, but in particular the small and medium sized farm owners, the real estate taxes imposed on their farm structures imposes a significant financial impact and adversely affects their ability to survive. At least eighteen other states have recognized this problem and have through legislation provided real estate tax relief for qualified farm structures. This legislation would use the same mechanism for providing real estate tax relief for qualified farm structures as it currently exists for qualified farmlands.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB36
Introduced
1/3/25
Refer
1/3/25
This Act requires dealers to offer car buyers the opportunity to purchase a contract cancellation option agreement. The contract cancellation option agreement must allow buyers to cancel a car purchase no less than 3 business days after the dealer delivers the car to the buyer. The cost of the contract cancellation option is based on the cash sale price of the car. A dealer may also charge a restocking fee, based on the cash sale price, if a consumer cancels the car purchase. But the cost of the contract cancellation option must be credited to any restocking fee. If a consumer chooses to buy a car at the end of a lease and then exercises a contract cancellation option, a dealer may charge to that consumer any amount that would have been due under the lease for excess mileage, unrepaired damage, and excess wear and tear. The dealer must keep any trade-in motor vehicles through the end of the cancellation period.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB37
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
This Act creates a right to free legal counsel for a relative seeking to adopt a child in the relatives family after parental rights over the child have been terminated and the child is in the custody of the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. Relatives of a child for whom adoption is being sought who are eligible for free legal counsel in adoption proceedings include siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, first cousins, first cousins once removed, great-grandparents, grandaunts or granduncles, half-siblings, stepparents, stepsiblings, stepaunts or stepuncles, or stepgrandparents.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB38
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
This Act provides financial support to owners who adopt a horse that retired from serving with the Department of Correction, State or Capitol police, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, or the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The owners of these retired-law enforcement horses may be reimbursed up to $3,000 annually for veterinary care expenses and farrier services paid by the owner for the care of the retired law-enforcement horse. The Department that the retired law-enforcement horse assisted shall issue veterinary care and farrier services reimbursements and promulgate regulations to create a reimbursement process for retired law-enforcement horses.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB39
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville (Selbyville) by doing all of the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB4
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
3/26/25
This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. Under this Act, the OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investigate and prevent fraud, waste, mismanagement, corruption, and other abuse of governmental resources. The OIG will protect the health and safety of Delaware residents, assist in the recovery of misspent or inappropriately paid funds, and strengthen government integrity and the public trust in government operations by doing all of the following:
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB40
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
3/12/25
Section 1 of this Act makes a pattern or practice of violations by a landlord of a Manufactured Home Community of subchapters I through V of Chapter 70 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, or a provision of a rental agreement, an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act, subchapter II, Chapter 70, of Title 25, under specified circumstances.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB41
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
This Act is a substitute for Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 41.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB42
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
1/14/25
Engrossed
1/21/25
Refer
1/22/25
Enrolled
1/30/25
Passed
2/7/25
After enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 of the 152nd General Assembly (Chapter 446 of Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware), it was discovered that Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 174 would, if implemented, jeopardize the qualified federal tax status of the Delaware Public Employees Retirement System by giving individuals who are Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of the Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas (Commissioners), and Magistrates in Chancery (Magistrates), as of the effective date, an election to participate in the Judicial Pension Plan at a different rate of pre-tax contribution than presently required for those individuals under the State Employees Pension Plan (3% or 5%, depending on start date). Based on this information, the Board of Pension Trustees voted unanimously on December 10, 2024, to delay implementation of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 174.
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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
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.