| HR 16 | Passed | Miro | | REAFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR TAIWAN'S MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND FOR STREGTHENING AND EXPANDING SISTER-STATE TIES BETWEEN THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND TAIWAN. |
| SCR 33 | Passed | McBride | This resolution creates the Administrative Law Improvement Task Force, which is charged with reviewing Delaware’s Administrative Procedures Act and other related statutes for the purpose of making recommendations to modernize Delaware’s administrative tribunal process, including judicial review of administrative tribunal decisions and processes for disputes involving land use and real property, including the Landlord Tenant Code. | CREATING AN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IMPROVEMENT TASK FORCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVIEWING AND IMPROVING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT, PROCESSES FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DECISIONS BY ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS, AND PROCESSES FOR DISPUTES INVOLVING LAND USE AND REAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE LANDLORD TENANT CODE. |
| HB 254 | Committee | Briggs King | This bill changes the calculation of biweekly pay for State officials and employees to compensate for the 27th pay period that occurs approximately every 11 years. This calculation is used by the Federal government to fairly spread the impact of the 27th pay over all pay periods. The last leap year resulted in an additional 58 million dollar cost. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO METHOD OF PAYMENT OF STATE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES. |
| HA 1 to SB 75 | Passed | Baumbach | This Amendment removes patronizes from the acts being added to Delaware's human trafficking crime to avoid confusion because the crime of patronizing a victim of sexual servitude already exists in this statute, in paragraph (b)(4). | |
| HA 1 to HB 225 | Passed | Bentz | The Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection no longer furnishes staff for the Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission. Thus, this Amendment updates the Code by removing that paragraph instead of updating the reference in it to the Division's new name. | |
| SA 1 to HB 38 | PWB | Hocker | This amendment clarifies that that municipalities have the authority to adopt ordnances placing restrictions or requirements on the construction or use of water wells within its jurisdiction, to the extent permitted by law.
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| HB 10 | Committee | M. Smith | This Act entitles all students from kindergarten through the 8th grade who are enrolled in a Delaware public school to morning and afternoon recess periods and a lunch period that is at least 30 minutes in length. Morning and afternoon break periods must be at least 10 minutes in length each. Under this Act, students are entitled to morning and afternoon breaks and a lunch period only on a full day of school. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RECESS AND LUNCH PERIODS FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TH GRADE STUDENTS. |
| HA 2 to HB 148 | PWB | Paradee | This amendment eliminates the deduction for 529 College Savings Plans, and limits the deduction for 529A “ABLE” plans to individuals and couples with a federal adjusted gross income of less than $125,000 or $250,000 respectively. | |
| HA 1 to SB 38 | Stricken | Jaques | This Amendment places this section in Chapter 81 of Title 9 instead of in Chapter 3 of Title 9 so that it is included with other property tax exemptions.
This Amendment also provides individuals with a disability who became disabled as a result of service in and while in the service of any branch of the United States armed services and who qualify for a 100 percent disability rating from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, with a full exemption from all real property taxation, exclusive of any local light and ditch taxes or sewer, trash, or other fees, in all 3 counties.
This Amendment also provides each county with the ability to promulgate the rules, regulations, and forms necessary to implement this section.
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| SA 2 to SB 101 | Passed | Walsh | This Amendment allows research facilities the option of contracting with another organization to comply with this Act and also allows a research facilities to operate their own adoption program. | |
| HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 180 | Stricken | Baumbach | This Amendment makes further revisions to House Substitute No. 1 to House Bill No. 180 to reflect negotiation with stakeholders. Specifically, this Amendment does the following:
Revises the definition of “determination of the breach of security” to remove the word reasonably.
Creates an exception so that information about an individual’s mental or physical condition is not considered personal information under this chapter if that information is contained in “open text” fields and the owner or licensee of the data is not subject to HIPAA.
It provides maintainers of data with the same extensions of time for notice as provided to owners of data.
This Amendment also makes technical corrections to conform to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
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| HA 2 to HB 187 | Passed | J. Johnson | This amendment removes the condition that a bidder may not own property that has been subject to fines, penalties or abatements of violations within the past 24 months in order to receive a prequalification certificate. This amendment also requires that a prequalified bidder can only assign a successful bid to those who satisfy the prequalification criteria. This provision eliminates a loophole wherein a prequalified bidder could have assigned a successful bid to a person who could not secure a prequalification certificate thus averting the intent of the prequalification process. | |
| HR 17 | Passed | Schwartzkopf | This Resolution recognizes Wednesday, June 21, 2017, as “Staff Appreciation Day” in the House of Representatives. | RECOGNIZING JUNE 21, 2017, AS "STAFF APPRECIATION DAY" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. |
| HA 1 to HB 241 | Passed | Schwartzkopf | This amendment changes the tax rates for beer, cider, wine and ethyl alcohol. | |
| SA 1 to SB 50 | PWB | McDowell | This Amendment transfers administrative responsibilities from the Secretary of Finance to the State Treasurer and reduces the amount of taxing authority granted to Delaware Tech’s Board of Trustees from 10 cents per $100 of assessed value to 6.5 cents per $100 of assessed value. | |
| SA 1 to SB 9 | Passed | Marshall | This amendment places restrictions on an employer's utilization of the Work a Day Earn a Pay Jobs Program. | |
| SA 1 to HB 64 | Stricken | Poore | This Amendment provides additional language to ensure that those mothers who have pregnancy complications that warrants prolonged or extended hospitalization of the mother or the infant in the antepartum or immediate postpartum period are protected under the statute. The intent of the Amendment is to broaden the scope of pregnancy complications that are covered under the statute. | |
