All Bills - Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
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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
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
Refer
1/23/25
This Act amends the Charter of the City of Harrington to clarify the Citys taxing powers by adding a specific power for the City Council to impose and collect a lodging tax of no more than 3% of the rent, in addition to the amount imposed by the State under Chapter 61 of Title 30, for the occupancy of any room in a hotel, motel, or tourist home, as defined under § 6101 of Title 30 of the Delaware Code, located within the boundaries of the City. This Act takes effect retroactively beginning on March 4, 2024. The City Council adopted an ordinance to collect a lodging tax on March 4, 2024, and the ordinance does not apply to reservations or contracts for lodging executed or completed before the effective date of the ordinance.
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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
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
Refer
2/20/25
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
Refer
2/20/25
This Act updates Title 11 of the Delaware Code concerning postconviction remedies relating to DNA testing and DNA evidence.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB58
Introduced
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
This Act provides a remedy for convicted persons relating to changes in forensic scientific or technical information. Specifically, a convicted person may apply to the Superior Court for relief if certain forensic scientific information was not available to be offered by the convicted person prior to the conviction or if it undermines forensic scientific evidence that was presented at trial. The court may grant relief if (1) the convicted person files an application asserting that the relevant forensic evidence is currently available and was not ascertainable through the exercise of reasonable diligence by the convicted person before or during trial or before the date of entry of a plea, and (2) the court determines that, had the evidence been presented at a trial, there is a reasonable likelihood that the result at trial would have been different or that the convicted person would not have been convicted.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB59
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/25/25
Public utilities are regulated monopolies. Practically speaking, a public utility has no competition in its service territory and, therefore, does not face the economic risks that a for-profit, non-utility company must face. By law, a public utility is authorized the opportunity to earn a reasonable rate of return on the costs it incurs in operating its business.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB6
Introduced
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
This Legislation is the Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2025.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB60
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/25/25
This Act requires the Delaware Public Service Commission to ensure that all regulated utilities do not use customer funds to subsidize unregulated activities for example, lobbying activities, political contributions, charitable contributions, and certain advertising and public relations activities. This Act places a cap on annual capital expenses in the amount of $125 million for electric distribution companies. This Act also contains a severability clause.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB61
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/25/25
This bill requires disclosure of votes cast at meetings of, or matters before, the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization.
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Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Delaware Senate Bill SB62
Introduced
3/6/25
Introduced
3/24/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/24/25
Like Senate Bill No. 62, Senate Substitute No. 1 for SB 62 clarifies that state agencies, including public schools, may enter into agreements to trade in or sell materiel other than vehicles, including computer technology, by making the following technical changes to § 7002 of Title 29: