| SB 71 w/ SA 2, SA 3, SA 4 + HA 1 | Passed House | Delcollo | This Act protects consumers from paying high prices for prescription drugs by ensuring competition in the marketplace by doing the following:
1. Prohibiting a pharmacy benefit manager from requiring or providing an incentive for an insured individual to use a pharmacy in which the pharmacy benefit manager has an ownership interest.
2. Requiring that a pharmacy must be owned by a pharmacist or by a majority of pharmacists if owned by an artificial entity. This ownership requirement is modelled on the same requirement in North Dakota law, enacted in 1963, which has kept North Dakota prescription prices among the lowest in the country and provides North Dakotans with more pharmacies per capita than the national average and a high level of care from locally owned pharmacies. This ownership requirement does not apply to current holders of a permit to operate a pharmacy or to hospital pharmacies that furnishes services only to patients and employees. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING PHARMACY OWNERSHIP AND PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS. |
| HB 142 w/ SA 1 | Signed | Griffith | This Act adds one more member, a licensed health care professional knowledgeable in the screening and identification of domestic violence cases appointed by the Council, to the Fatal Incident Review Team of the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. The Act also updates language regarding victims of domestic violence to include survivors. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATING COUNCIL. |
| HB 5 w/ HA 2 | Signed | Longhurst | The stacking of sentences can, and has, in some cases, result in severe prison sentences without permitting the sentencing judge any discretion as to the offender’s individual circumstances or the facts of the case. In order to provide such judicial discretion, this bill reforms concurrent and consecutive sentencing. This bill provides sentencing judges with the discretion to sentence prison time concurrently when appropriate. However, this bill mandates consecutive sentences when there are multiple victims for the most serious crimes. In addition, this bill requires consecutive sentences for assault in a detention facility. Under this bill, based upon the facts and circumstances of a case, prosecutors are able to recommend and judges have the discretion to order consecutive sentences. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO IMPRISONMENT. |
| HB 74 w/ HA 1 | Signed | Lynn | This bill enables a key component of the Take Care Delaware program, a partnership between law enforcement and schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to children who have been identified at the scene of a traumatic event. The Take Care Delaware program, which will start as a pilot, operates by a police officer or emergency-care provider alerting a child’s school about the child’s presence at a traumatic event that the police officer or emergency-care provider responded to. In order to avoid violations of the State Bureau of Investigation’s dissemination statute and the Victim’s Bill of Rights in Title 11, this bill creates a narrow exception to both statutes that allows police officers and emergency-care providers to send the child’s name to their school district or charter school so that the child’s teachers can ensure the child is handled in a trauma-informed way. The Take Care Delaware program is based on the national “Handle With Care” model and includes training and other best practices for law enforcement and schools to prevent and mitigate the negative impact of childhood exposure to trauma. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE REGARDING DISSEMINATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. |
| HB 197 | Signed | Lynn | This Act is a recommendation following the comprehensive analysis of the Family Court Adjudicated Drug Court Program conducted by Family Court, the Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families, the Department of Justice, and the Office of Defense Services. Repeal of the Family Court Adjudicated Drug Court Program is also supported by the Government Efficiency and Accountability Review Board as noted in its 2018 Annual Report.
After a comprehensive analysis of the program, it was determined that the Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services (YRS) had implemented practices, including the use of an assessment tool, that are identifying and then effectively and efficiently addressing the needs of justice involved youth with substance use disorders. The review found that YRS’ active case management practices allowed YRS to be responsive to each child’s service needs and to involve the Court as necessary. Recent juvenile justice reforms, including civil citation, are also keeping many youth from entering the justice system while simultaneously ensuring that any identified substance use disorders are addressed.
Given the high level of individualized treatment services and case management youth are currently receiving inside and outside the juvenile justice system, repeal of the program was recommended.
| AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FAMILY COURT ADJUDICATED DRUG COURT PROGRAM. |
| HB 225 | Signed | Q. Johnson | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act. | AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2020; SPECIFYING CERTAIN PROCEDURES, CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF SUCH FUNDS; AND AMENDING CERTAIN PERTINENT STATUTORY PROVISIONS. |
| HB 226 | Signed | Q. Johnson | This Act appropriates $61,980,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget. | AN ACT MAKING A ONE-TIME SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2020 TO THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET. |
| SB 154 w/ SA 1 | Out of Committee | Lockman | This Act establishes the Quality Improvement Advisory Council (“Advisory Council”) to promote collaboration and problem-solving with stakeholders in the system of care administered by the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (“the Division”). The Division, in consultation with the Advisory Council, must submit an annual report to the General Assembly and the Department of Health and Social Services on specific performance measures affecting services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Under this Act, the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee will review the Advisory Council in 2022 to determine whether it has been an effective tool for collaboration between the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services and the provider community. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. |
| SA 2 to SB 71 | Passed | Delcollo | This Amendment does the following:
1. Clarifies that a pharmacy benefit manager is not violating this Act in situations where a pharmaceutical product has an extremely limited distribution and the only local pharmacy with that product is owned by the pharmacy benefit manager.
2. Revises the hospital exception to the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists.
3. Exempts federally qualified health centers and other non-profit community health centers from the the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists. | |
| SB 162 w/ SA 1 | Signed | Hocker | This Act amends the Charter of Millville to give the Town Council the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax. | AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF MILLVILLE RELATING TO THE POWER TO IMPOSE AND COLLECT A LODGING TAX. |
| SB 168 | Signed | Ennis | This Act allows for the transfer of a particular parcel of land in Smyrna along Route 13. In the 147th General Assembly, the State was allowed to transfer this parcel of land, where a fire tower once stood, to the Town of Smyrna, but the land could only ever be used for a public purpose. The parcel in question is surrounded on both sides by parcels owned by the same private citizen. The Town and the private citizen wish to exchange their respective parcels so that the private citizen’s two parcels are thereafter contiguous. Because the land reverts to the ownership of the State if it ever stops being used for a public purpose, the Town cannot deed the land to the private individual. Therefore, this Act allows the State to receive the parcel from the Town and to then re-convey it to the Town without the requirement that it be forever used for a public purpose. The reconveyance will, however, allow the State to put an antenna on any water tower that the Town may build on the parcel or an adjacent parcel. | AN ACT TO TRANSFER LAND BETWEEN THE TOWN OF SMYRNA AND THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SB 170 | Signed | Townsend | This Act creates a CBD-Rich card medical marijuana card to treat anxiety in adults. This Act also requires that a registry identification card state the type of card that is issued to clearly identify qualifying adult patients, qualifying pediatric patients, designated caregivers, and CBD-Rich patients.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. |
| SA 1 to SB 154 | Passed | Hansen | This Amendment does the following:
- Changes the name of the advisory council and clarifies the advisory council’s role in advising the Division of
Developmental Disabilities Services (“Division”).
- Changes and simplifies the appointing authority of the advisory council’s membership, so that 1 member is
appointed by the Division’s Secretary and the remaining 8 members are appointed by the chairs of the Joint
Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee.
- Clarifies that the data required in the annual report may not include information that identifies a specific
patient or provider.
- Provides that the data that must be included in the annual report are not records and proceedings for the
purposes of § 1768 of Title 24. | |
| HJR 3 | Signed | Q. Johnson | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2019. | THE OFFICIAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019. |
| HJR 4 | Signed | Q. Johnson | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020. | THE OFFICIAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020. |
| SA 1 to SB 162 | Passed | Hocker | This Amendment corrects the name of the town to Millville. | |
| SA 1 to SB 150 | Passed | Lockman | This Amendment does the following:
(1) Clarifies that the Department of Education (“Department”) can provide the uniform kindergarten registration process in languages other than English and Spanish.
(2) Removes the exemplary list of documents required to be completed by a parent who is registering a child for kindergarten.
(3) Requires that information related to all types of early learning experiences that a child has before kindergarten is collected by the uniform kindergarten registration process.
(4) Clarifies that all personal documents available for Internet-based or electronic upload must be accepted by schools for consideration, including birth certificates.
(5) Requires that the Department establish a process for supporting a parent to register a child for kindergarten before the application deadline for the school district enrollment choice program under § 403 of Title 14 rather than requiring the Department to establish a date by which it is recommended a parent register a child.
(6) Makes additional conforming amendments. | |
| SA 3 to SB 71 | Passed | Delcollo | This Amendment exempts pharmacies holding a permit on the effective date of this Act from the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by pharmacists if the pharmacy relocates the business or undergoes a restructuring of ownership. | |
| SA 1 to HB 142 | Passed | Brown | This amendment makes a technical correction. | |
| SA 4 to SB 71 | Passed | Delcollo | This Amendment allows a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to require an insured to use a specialty pharmacy owned by the PBM and to provide incentives to an insured to use a specialty or mail-order pharmacy owned by the PBM. | |
