| HB 40 w/ SA 1 | Signed | Longhurst | This bill: (1) increases the number of directors on the Board and allows the Board to appoint four additional directors; (2) implements clarifying language; (3) sunsets the former Advisory Council to replace it with a subcommittee structure to allow greater participation from members of the public and to allow the Corporation to appoint and receive assistance and expertise from a greater variety of experts; and (4) allows the Board of Directors to amend the Certificate of Incorporation with approval from the General Assembly. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FORT DUPONT REDEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION CORPORATION. |
| SB 26 w/ SA 1 | Committee | Delcollo | Sections 1 and 2 of this Act make clear that an individual who is the subject of a false report is a victim and is entitled to restitution and the benefits of the Victims’ Bill of Rights.
Section 3 of this Act corrects an internal reference to § 1245 of Title 11 based on changes made in Section 1 of this Act.
Finally, this Act makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FALSELY REPORTING AN INCIDENT. |
| HB 62 w/ HA 1 | Signed | K. Williams | This Act revises the Delaware Nursing Home Resident's Quality Assurance Commission by doing all of the following:
1. Restores language regarding staffing and support from the Department of Justice that was repealed in error by House Bill No. 225 as amended by House Amendment No. 1 in the 149th General Assembly.
2. Revises membership to decrease the number of vacancies.
3. Makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMISSION. |
| HB 104 w/ HA 1 | Signed | Bentz | This bill addresses the Behavioral and Mental Health Commission and functionally narrows its scope to peer review responsibilities. This peer review function provides independent oversight to Delaware’s mental health system without authority to force changes on the State. Much of the current broader responsibilities of the larger Commission overlap with the Governor’s Advisory Committee to DSAMH. The proposed changes do not replace or eliminate the Addiction Action Committee. This is merely to ensure that all commissions and committees have their own discrete area in which to focus. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION. |
| HB 102 w/ HA 1 | Signed | K. Williams | This bill allows a person who is arrested or convicted of any crime, except a violent felony, which was a direct result of being a victim of human trafficking may file an application or for a pardon or expungement or make a motion to vacate judgment. This bill also makes changes to the Human Trafficking Interagency coordinating by adding another member of the judicial branch and a representative of the Department of Education. This bill also adds locations where a public awareness sign must be placed. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CRIMES. |
| HCR 27 | Passed | Jaques | This Concurrent Resolution commends and congratulates the Secretary of Education Scholars for 2019. | COMMENDING THE STUDENTS SELECTED AS SECRETARY OF EDUCATION SCHOLARS FOR 2019. |
| HCR 43 | Passed | Yearick | This resolution encourages State of Delaware employees to make informed decisions about their health care during Open Enrollment and throughout the year as an important step to help control rising health care costs and to maintain high quality, affordable benefit options now and in the future. | ENCOURAGING STATE OF DELAWARE EMPLOYEES TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH CARE DURING OPEN ENROLLMENT AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. |
| HS 1 for HB 105 | Signed | Minor-Brown | Step therapy protocols are a mechanism by which health insurance companies require patients to try one or more prescriptions drugs before coverage is provided for the actual drug prescribed by the patient’s health care provider. This Act creates a Step Therapy Exception Process whereby patients who are required by their insurance company to go through step therapy protocols can, under certain circumstances, bypass step therapy to obtain the initially-prescribed medication. This Act does not apply to state or federal governmental plans. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACTS. |
| HCR 37 | Passed | Briggs King | This resolution proclaims May 2019 as "Community Action Month" in the State of Delaware. | PROCLAIMING MAY 2019 AS "COMMUNITY ACTION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SB 80 | Signed | Hocker | This Act changes the composition of the Council on Recreational Fishing Funding. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FISHING. |
| HCR 38 | Passed | Schwartzkopf | This concurrent resolution commends the nominees and recipients for the 2019 Delaware Governor’s Awards: Recognizing State Employee Individuals, Teams, and Heroes. | COMMENDING THE NOMINEES AND RECIPIENTS OF THE 2019 DELAWARE GOVERNOR’S AWARDS: RECOGNIZING STATE EMPLOYEE INDIVIDUALS, TEAMS, AND HEROES. |
| HCR 39 | Passed | Q. Johnson | This concurrent resolution proclaims May 8, 2019, as “Early Childhood Advocacy Day” to affirm the importance of quality early learning for every citizen and every sector of our State, to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year, and to rededicate ourselves to our shared responsibility for the construction and support of a Delaware early childhood system that will positively impact children, families, communities, and workforce and economic development across the State. | DESIGNATING MAY 8, 2019, AS “EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVOCACY DAY” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SB 47 w/ SA 1 | Signed | Lockman | This Act simplifies Delaware’s drug code with a goal of providing more fairness in its application. This Act removes geographic-based enhancements that disproportionately impact those living in urban areas as opposed to suburban and rural areas. This Act reduces the number of weight tiers from 5 to 3 with adjustments to accompanying sentences while retaining higher felony levels for weights that indicate drug dealing. This Act reflects the reality that the road to recovery from a drug addiction is difficult by removing automatic sentence enhancements based on prior drug offenses, and instead allowing discretion during sentencing to determine when a repeat offender requires substantive additional penalty.
Specifically, Sections 1 through 14 of this Act do the following:
(1) Eliminate most aggravating factors, some of which may cause Delaware’s controlled substance laws to be applied unfairly, while maintaining an aggravating factor for those who violate Delaware’s drug dealing laws within 300 feet of and on school property.
(2) Eliminate enhancements based on the commission of prior drug offenses.
(3) Simplify Delaware’s controlled substance laws by reducing the number of weight tiers that are used to categorize the severity of controlled substance offenses.
(4) Provide statutory guidance for the weighing and sampling procedures used at criminal trials for controlled substances.
Sections 15 through 20 of this Act make conforming amendments to the Delaware Code based on changes made by Sections 1 through 14 of this Act.
This Act takes effect 90 days after its enactment into law.
Finally, this Act makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
| SB 86 | Signed | Lopez | This Act amends the Charter of Rehoboth Beach to give the Commissioners the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF REHOBOTH BEACH RELATING TO THE POWER TO IMPOSE AND COLLECT A LODGING TAX. |
| SB 44 w/ HA 1 | Signed | Sturgeon | This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individual’s certified criminal record. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERAGE POSSESSION OR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. |
| SB 94 | Signed | Townsend | Section 1 of this Act amends Section 903 of Title 13 of the Delaware Code. Substantively, this Act allows persons who are not married but who are cohabitating to jointly adopt a child that is not theirs. The Act also rewrites the statute so as to be more clearly understandable. Section 2 of this Act amends Section 951 of Title 13 of the Delaware Code. It allows persons who are not married but who are cohabitating to jointly adopt a child that is not theirs. The Act also changes the phrase "husband and wife" to "married couple." | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO ADOPTION. |
| SA 1 to HB 40 | Passed | Poore | This Amendment reduces the number of Board-appointed members to three and adds the City Manager of Delaware City as a Board member. | |
| HCR 46 | Passed | Minor-Brown | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Ramadan and Muslim residents of this State as they observe Ramadan. | RECOGNIZING RAMADAN AND MUSLIM RESIDENTS OF THIS STATE AS THEY OBSERVE RAMADAN. |
| SA 1 to SB 26 | Passed | Delcollo | This Amendment makes technical corrections to the Act to correct drafting errors. | |
| SA 1 to SB 47 | Passed | Lockman | This Amendment does the following:
(1) Removes an existing defined term that is made unnecessary by changes made by the Act.
(2) Restores the aggravators for resisting arrest by and fleeing from a law enforcement officer.
(3) Makes clear that a defendant may be charged with the crime of resisting arrest or the aggravator for resisting, but not both.
(4) Makes clear the aggravator for a protected school zone applies when the conduct occurs in a protected school zone, but not when a pursuit of a suspect ends in the protected school zone.
(5) Replaces references to “protected school zone” in offenses enhanced by the protected school zone with references to “aggravating factor”. | |
