| HB 472 | Committee | Postles | This bill removes two out-of-date sections of the Division of Motor Vehicles' code.
The first section to be deleted relates to a prohibition against a person displaying any card, sign, insignia, etc. of the Delaware Automobile Association unless they are a member of that Association. DMV believes the Association no longer exists as a separate entity.
The second section relates to requirements for any vehicle provided by a railroad company that is used to transport railroad employees. DMV advises this section has never been enforced to anyone's knowledge. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
| SCR 69 | Passed | Richardson | This Senate Concurrent Resolution creates a Delaware Youth Drug Prevention Curriculum Task Force to examine available drug prevention programs and to recommend a course of action to educate our youth about the dangers of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use to reduce the chance that youth will experiment with these substances. | CREATING THE DELAWARE YOUTH DRUG PREVENTION CURRICULUM TASK FORCE. |
| SCR 71 | Passed | Henry | This Senate Concurrent Resolution supports the Ad Hoc Committee for Child Support Formula Review's proposed revision to Family Court Rule of Civil Procedure 506. | SUPPORTING THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR CHILD SUPPORT FORMULA REVIEW'S PROPOSED REVISION TO FAMILY COURT RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 506. |
| SCR 70 | Passed | Henry | This Senate Concurrent Resolution creates a Medicaid Buy-In Study Group to study the adoption of an expanded Medicaid Buy-In program that would allow Delawareans with incomes above 138% of the Federal Poverty Level to purchase insurance coverage through the Medicaid program. | CREATING A MEDICAID BUY-IN STUDY GROUP. |
| SCR 73 w/ HA 1 | Passed | Henry | This Resolution creates a Shift Worker Protection Study Group to identify best practices to reduce the unpredictability of shift worker schedules. | CREATING A SHIFT WORKER PROTECTION STUDY GROUP. |
| SR 21 | Passed | Poore | This Senate Resolution promotes awareness of the rare disease hypophosphatemic rickets. | PROMOTING AWARENESS OF THE RARE DISEASE HYPOPHOSPHATEMIC RICKETS. |
| SR 22 | Passed | Hocker | This resolution calls upon the Delaware Department of Transportation to immediately undertake a study to determine the feasibility of, and provide cost estimates for, widening and creating a shoulder/bike path along the length of Double Bridges Road. | CALLING UPON THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORATION TO UNDERTAKE THE PLANNING PROCESS TO MAKE IMPROVMENTS TO DOUBLE BRIDGES ROAD IN FRANKFORD. |
| HB 473 | Committee | Brady | This act makes various edits to the existing Medical Marijuana Act, including, but not limited to:
• Adding requirements for registration of a compassion center, including information about any labor peace agreement with a bona fide labor organization assuring an uninterrupted supply of medicine, and to disclose any record of previous violations, investigations, citations, administrative proceedings, or lawsuits related to any laws or regulations relating to employment, workplace safety, wages and compensation, discrimination, any other worker protections, tax, or any other relevant laws and regulation by any business owned or operated by the applicant, principal, or managerial employees.
• Expands the authority of the Department to include evaluation of compassion center registration certificate renewals.
• Expands considerations by the Department for an applicant of a compassion center to include the centers plan to maintain pesticide free medical marijuana, the center's employment standards, and evidence that they have no history of disciplinary action and/or investigations.
• Includes in the criteria for compassion center and safety compliance facilities renewals to submit any history of disciplinary action and/or investigations.
• Removes the requirement for volunteers of compassion center, or registered safety compliance facilities to undergo background checks every 5 years.
• Requires a compassion center or a registered safety compliance facility to report any legal proceedings, judgments, or government investigations against them, or its owners, principals or managerial employees and to provide sufficient compensation to support the worker’s family, health and welfare, and cost of living.
| AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT. |
| SS 1 for SB 176 | LOT | Hansen | This Act creates a Prescription Opioid Impact Fund (“Fund”) through a prescription opioid impact fee (“Fee”) that is assessed on manufacturers of prescription opioids as follows:
1. The fee is based on the total of the Morphine Milligram Equivalent (“MME”) in each manufacturer’s products dispensed in Delaware, based upon data already reported to the Prescription Monitoring Program (“PMP”). The PMP data contains the mandatory reports by pharmacists of every prescription opioid dispensed in the State. The PMP data does not include prescription opioids administered in hospitals, provided directly to patients by hospice, or dispensed by veterinarians.
2. The fee is assessed against manufacturers who exceed a threshold of MME dispensed each quarter.
3. The Fee is assessed as follows:
• One penny per MME for a prescription opioid dispensed and reported in the PMP.
• One-quarter of a penny per MME for a prescription opioid that is a generic.
The money in the Prescription Opioid Impact Fund must be spent on the following activities:
1. Opioid addiction prevention.
2. The following opioid addiction services:
• Inpatient and outpatient treatment programs and facilities, including short-term and long-term residential treatment programs and sober living facilities.
• Treating substance use disorder for the under-insured and uninsured.
• Emergency assistance relating to prescription opioids, including purchasing Naloxone.
3. Research regarding opioid addiction and treatment.
4. Administrative costs of implementing the Fee and Fund, up to 15% of the amount in the Fund.
The Addiction Action Committee will award grants and contracts from the money in the Fund, based upon priorities developed in consultation with the Behavioral Health Consortium. A standing subcommittee of the Addiction Action Committee that does not contain any State employees will make the recommendations regarding the awards of the grants and contracts.
This Substitute Bill differs from Senate Bill No. 176 as follows:
• Adds additional whereas clauses to further explain the background for the Fund and Fee.
• Gives responsibility for the Fee to the Secretary of State instead of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services, because the PMP and the Controlled Substances Act are under the Secretary of State.
• Removes the ability to use the funds from the Fee for Medicaid, and restricts appropriations to specifically-listed activities.
• Prohibits using the Fund to supplant existing State funding.
• Permits a manufacturer to challenge an invoice for a prescription opioid impact fee through the existing appeal process under the Controlled Substances Act.
• Gives responsibility for appropriating funds from the Fund to the Addiction Action Committee.
• Lowers the amount of the impact fee for generic drugs.
• Establishes a minimum threshold before manufacturers are assessed the Fee.
• Removes the restriction on raising prices to consumers because the Fee is unlikely to materially increase the price of prescription drugs because those prices are set on a national basis.
• Provides explicitly that the Attorney General may recover interest and reasonable attorney fees and costs in a successful lawsuit to enforce this Act.
• Clarifies that the Secretary of State develops the rules and regulations for implementing the Fee. And the Addiction Action Committee, with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services, develops the rules and regulations for implementing the Fund.
• Revises the reporting requirements on how money from the Fund is spent.
• Provides clear permission to share the PMP data with the Addiction Action Committee, Secretary of State, and Attorney General for the purposes of administering and enforcing this chapter. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE CREATING A PRESCRIPTION OPIOID IMPACT FUND. |
| HA 1 to HB 465 | Passed | Schwartzkopf | This Amendment corrects a typographical error. | |
| HA 1 to HB 454 | PWB | Ramone | This amendment removes an exception for golf courses and other recreational uses in the definition of what is included as previously developed land. | |
| SJR 5 | Signed | McDowell | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2018. | THE OFFICIAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018. |
| HA 1 to HB 444 | PWB | J. Johnson | This amendment makes a technical correction. | |
| SJR 6 | Signed | McDowell | 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. |
| SA 2 to SB 225 | Passed | Hansen | This Amendment makes Section 4 and Section 5 of this Act, which cover the state employee plan and Medicaid, effective when funds are appropriated to implement it. | |
| HA 1 to HB 413 | Passed | Paradee | This amendment identifies the relevant information that must be disclosed by insurers and claimants prior to the time that a lawsuit is filed when disclosure of policy limits is requested by a claimant or claimant's attorney. | |
| HA 1 to SB 246 | Passed | Heffernan | Pursuant to this amendment, county and municipal governments may only rent public park lands for recreational purposes and related activities. | |
| SA 1 to SB 251 | PWB | Bushweller | This Amendment lowers the current monthly assessment by $0.50 and redirects $0.50 of the current assessment to the Delaware Manufactured Home Owner Attorney Fund. This removes the three-fifths vote requirement because this Act is not creating or increasing a new fee. | |
| SA 1 to SB 201 | PWB | Bushweller | This Amendment changes the percentage rate for tax exempt properties in county seats with populations under 50,000 to 100%. The amendment also raises the annual cap on the amount distributed to $6,725,000. | |
| SA 2 to SB 201 | PWB | Bushweller | This amendment changes the percentage rate for tax exempt properties in county seats with populations under 50,000 to 50%. The amendment also raises the annual cap on the amount distributed to $5,500,000. | |
| SA 1 to SB 244 | Passed | Walsh | This amendment makes a technical correction, clarifies the role of the Committee on Employment and Social Services in facilitating employment of TANF recipients, and adds fraud and waste to the topics to be covered in the Committee's Annual Report. | |
