| SS 1 for SB 4 w/ HA 1, HA 2 | Signed | Sturgeon | Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4 requires the Department of Education (Department) to maintain and publish a list of evidence-based, reading instruction curricula for grades kindergarten through 3. Each curriculum on this list must align with the essential components of literacy, known as the “science of reading” and use high-quality instructional materials. School districts and charter schools must provide an annual report to the Department regarding the implementation of these requirements and the Department must produce an annual report summarizing this information. The information required in the Department’s report may be consolidated into a single report with the requirements under § 158 of Title 14, if House Bill No. 304 is also enacted this year.
Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4 also requires that by the beginning of the 2027-2028 school year, school districts and charter schools serving students in grades kindergarten through 3 do all of the following:
1. Adopt a reading instruction curriculum from the Department list.
2. Demonstrate that all educators who teach reading successfully complete professional development aligned with the essential components of evidence-based reading instruction.
3. Identify a school-based supervisory position responsible for assisting with the implementation of the adopted curriculum.
Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4 differs from Senate Bill No. 4 by doing all of the following:
1. Requires the Department to maintain, on its website, the criteria and rubric used to identify high-quality curriculum.
2. Allows school districts and charter schools to apply to have alternative curriculum that meet these criteria approved.
3. Clarifies the requirements.
4. Adds to the list of positions that are responsible for reading instruction and coaching.
5. Makes technical corrections. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EVIDENCE-BASED READING CURRICULA. |
| SB 286 | Signed | Hansen | This Act shall be known as the “New Castle County Neighborhood Improvement District Act.” The Act assembles New Castle County resources under “one roof” to focus comprehensively on persistent, and in some cases legacy, neighborhood problems, thereby promoting the possibilities of successfully resolving systemic neighborhood problems.
Summary of the Act:
• The Act provides for creation of a Neighborhood Improvement District (a “NID”).
• Creation of a neighborhood district provides a source of funding for enhanced services in neighborhoods that are especially in need of such services, including, for example, district-wide snow removal, district-wide trash collection, and maintenance of open space.
• A primary, but not exclusive, source of funding for the enhanced services is a special assessment on non-exempt properties located within the NID, the primary beneficiaries in the neighborhood.
• A NID may be initiated by submission of a voluntary petition by property owners or residents in the district, or by the County, subject to objection by at least 50%, in number, of the non-exempt specially assessed property owners in the district.
• A NID will be created and is to exist for only as long as necessary to resolve problems in a neighborhood, and then, after accomplishing its goal of resolving persistent neighborhood problems, it will be subject to dissolution.
| AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 AND TITLE 17 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. |
| SB 292 w/ SA 1 | Signed | Hansen | An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is expected to approve at least 1 new, more powerful opioid antagonist in 2022.
The current naloxone program allows public safety personnel and trained lay people to receive and administer naloxone to individuals suspected of experiencing an opioid overdose. This Act allows the Department of Health and Social Services to expand the current program to include additional opioid antagonists.
This Act also makes technical corrections to reflect that advance practice registered nurses have the authority to prescribe medication and to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual as follows:
1. Reorganizing the current Chapter 30G of Title 16 from a single Code section to a chapter with several Code sections so that similar provisions are grouped together.
2. Using consistent phrases and terminology. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NALOXONE AND OTHER OPIOID ANTAGONISTS. |
| SS 1 for SB 278 | Signed | Hansen | This substitute bill makes a technical correction to the bill. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE 9/11 REMEMBRANCE FLAG. |
| HCR 83 | Passed | Griffith | This resolution recognizes May 29th as ‘DE529 Day’. | RECOGNIZING MAY 29TH AS “DE529 DAY”. |
| HCR 85 | Passed | Bolden | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the contributions of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority chapters in the State of Delaware and declares May 17, 2022, to be “Delta Day at the Delaware Capital.” | RECOGNIZING MAY 17, 2022, AS “DELTA DAY AT THE DELAWARE CAPITAL.” |
| SA 1 to SB 292 | Passed | Hansen | This amendments adds physician assistants to the definition of "health-care practitioner" so that they have the same immunity protection as physicians and advance practice registered nurses when prescribing or dispensing an opioid antagonist. | |
