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Daily Report for 3/14/2023

Governor's Actions

No legislation is Signed by Governor Today

New Legislation Introduced

Bill	Current Status	Sponsor	Synopsis	Title
HR 7	Committee	Spiegelman	This amendment to the House Rules requires a three-fifths vote of the members of the House in order to suspend the House Rules. The primary purpose of the House Rules is to establish a reasonable and orderly process for the consideration of legislative proposals to be addressed by the House of Representatives. Suspension of Rules should only be necessary in unusual situations. This change will require a broad consensus (three-fifths) of all members of the House of Representatives in order to suspend rules. Since a three-fifths requirement cannot be done via a simple voice vote, and must be performed with a roll call, this change will also increase transparency by ensuring that every legislator will have their vote on the action recorded and available for public review.	RELATING TO THE TEMPORARY RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 152ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

Legislation Passed By Senate

Bill	Current Status	Sponsor	Synopsis	Title
HB 51 w/ HA 1	Signed	Vanderwende	This bill allows the fleet inspection program to be applicable to a fleet of 10 or more vehicles (instead of 15) and counts trailers requiring inspection to count as fleet vehicles. Additionally, an inspection may be performed at any qualified inspection and repair facility authorized by the Secretary of Transportation instead of being limited to such facilities at the fleet headquarters.	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSPECTION OF FLEET VEHICLES.
SB 32 w/ SA 1	Signed	Poore	The bill adds visual impairments including blindness to the list of programs to be conducted on a 12-month schedule.	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.
SB 33	Signed	Gay	This bill adopts a key recommendation of the Child Protection Accountability Commission Caseloads and Workloads final report approved on November 20, 2019, that Division of Family Services (DFS) caseload standards be reduced from 18 to 12 families per worker. Due to the volume of work generated by a caseload of 18 families, workers are significantly restricted in the time they can spend on critical case activities such as family engagement, assessment of safety, and face-to-face contact with children and families.	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES.
SB 49	Signed	Hoffner	This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Governor's Commission on Community and Volunteer Services ("Commission"). This Act does the following: - Removes outdated language. - Incorporates federal requirements regarding Commission membership and duties. - Clarifies quorum. - Clarifies that the Delaware State Office of Volunteerism provides reasonable staff support to assist the Commission. - Codifies the duties of the Commission's Executive Director. In Delaware, the Administrator of the State Office of Volunteerism also serves as the Commission's Executive Director. The Executive Director is a nonvoting, ex-officio Commission member and administers staffing services for the Commission. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law with the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER SERVICES.
SA 1 to SB 32	Passed	Poore	Section 1703(e) of Title 14 of the Delaware Code places limits on the number of hours and days of student and teacher attendance for programs for children with certain disabilities. This amendment limits the number of teacher work days for Division of Visually Impaired teachers to not more than 226 days.
HCR 16	Passed	K. Williams	This Concurrent Resolution directs the Department of Education to issue a report assessing the advantages and disadvantages of virtual learning for kindergarten through grade 12 students in a post-COVID learning environment, to include a review of all current virtual learning options in the State.	DIRECTING THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ISSUE A REPORT ANALYZING THE BENEFITS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING IN A POST-COVID LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
HCR 15	Passed	Bolden	This House Concurrent Resolution designates March 14, 2023 as "Equal Pay Day" in the State of Delaware.	DESIGNATING MARCH 14, 2023 AS "EQUAL PAY DAY" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

Legislation Passed By House of Representatives

Bill	Current Status	Sponsor	Synopsis	Title
SCR 12	Passed	Pinkney	This Senate Concurrent Resolution declares that gun violence is a public health crisis, that ending the gun violence devastating Delaware is a policy priority, and supporting policy and legislative solutions that will make schools safe, confront armed hate and extremism, prevent suicide, and center and support survivors of gun violence.	DECLARING GUN VIOLENCE A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
HA 1 to HB 68	Passed	Baumbach	This amendment clarifies that the lookback period for determining reimbursement of police training expenses does not apply to police officers who submitted applications to the 100th Delaware State Police Recruit Class on or before November 7, 2022, and were subsequently accepted to the 100th Delaware State Police Recruit Class.
HA 1 to HB 53	Passed	Griffith	This amendment clarifies that the residency requirement applies to the Chief Prosecutor of a particular county and not the head or assistant head of any Division of the Department of Justice.
SCR 14	Passed	Pinkney	This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates March 14, 2023, as “Pi Day” in the State of Delaware.	RECOGNIZING MARCH 14, 2023, AS "PI DAY" IN DELAWARE.
SCR 11	Passed	Townsend	This Resolution recognizes March 18, 2023, as National Public Defense Day.	RECOGNIZING MARCH 18, 2023 AS NATIONAL PUBLIC DEFENSE DAY.

Senate Committee Assignments

House Committee Assignments

Senate Committee Report

No Senate Committee Report

House Committee Report

Senate Defeated Legislation

No Senate Defeated Legislation

House Defeated Legislation

Bill	Current Status	Sponsor	Synopsis	Title
HA 1 to HA 1 to HB 53	Defeated	Lynn	This amendment requires that a lawyer designated by the Attorney General as Chief Prosecutor of a county must reside in that county at the time the lawyer is designated Chief Prosecutor of that county.

Nominations Enacted upon by the Senate

No Records