| SCR 34 | Passed | Gay | This resolution congratulates the winning teams from the 2023 Delaware High School Mock Trial Program. | CONGRATULATING THE WINNERS OF THE 32ND ANNUAL DELAWARE HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL PROGRAM. |
| SCR 37 | Passed | Poore | This concurrent resolution recognizes April 29, 2023, as "World Wish Day" in Delaware. | RECOGNIZING APRIL 29, 2023 AS "WORLD WISH DAY" IN DELAWARE. |
| SCR 38 | Passed | Huxtable | This Resolution designates April 23-29, 2023, as "Delaware Library Week" in the State of Delaware. | DESIGNATING APRIL 23-29, 2023, AS “DELAWARE LIBRARY WEEK” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SB 101 | Committee | Hansen | This Bill amends the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to establish quantity tiers specific to drug offenses involving fentanyl. This update to the UCSA accounts for the high potency and lethality of fentanyl relative to other substances in its current statutory category, and the rise in deaths and suffering related to fentanyl throughout Delaware communities. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. |
| HA 1 to HB 105 | Passed | K. Williams | This Amendment to House Bill 105 requires that physicians provide the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline notice of how patients may obtain their old medical records when a physician's medical practice closes or the physician dies. It also clarifies that when a physician notifies a patient that the patient-physician relationship will be discontinued, the notice shall include the date the physician services will be discontinued.
Finally, this Amendment makes this Act effective 6 months after its enactment. | |
| HA 1 to HB 127 | Passed | Baumbach | This Amendment revises House Bill No. 127 to make ambulance service providers who are recipients of a Grant-in-Aid eligible for money collected from a county’s fire protection fee. There are currently 3 volunteer ambulance service providers that are not operated by fire companies but are treated in the same manner as fire companies for certification, audits, and all receive a Grant-in-Aid in the section of the annual Grant-in-Aid bill for fire companies.
Under HB 127, “fire protection” includes ambulances and basic life support, but only fire companies who are a recipient of a Grant-in-Aid and provide fire protection outside the City of Wilmington can receive money from a county’s fire protection fee.
This Amendment revises HB 127 to define “ambulance service provider” as a organization that is a recipient of a Grant-in-Aid for the operation and maintenance of ambulances and groups ambulance service providers with fire companies under the term “fire protection provider” so that all organizations that receive a Grant-in-Aid and provide ambulance services in the county, outside of the City of Wilmington, are eligible to receive money collected under a county fire protection fee and if these funds are received, the organization must include that money in the annual audit required under current law. | |
| SS 1 for SB 42 | Lieu/Substituted | Brown | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 42. Like Senate Bill No. 42, this Act does all of the following:
(1) Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees’ Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $10,000. The burial benefit has not been increased since 2001 (See 73 Del. Laws, c. 146, § 5).
(2) As a result of the increase in burial benefit made by Section 1 of this Act, the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Police Pension Plan (Chapter 83 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code), Delaware County and Municipal Police and Firefighter Pension Plan (Chapter 88 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code), and the early retirement option for state employees (Chapter 53 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code), and the reasonable funeral expenses permitted in a wrongful death action under § 3724(d)(4) of Title 10 of the Delaware Code, are also increased as these are all linked to the burial benefit amount established under § 5546 of Title 29.
(3) Section 2 of this Act removes the requirement that the funeral expenses paid for the funeral of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue company be reasonable and not exceed a certain amount, resulting in a guaranteed $7,000 for funeral expenses.
(4) Delays the effect of this Act until October 1, 2023, to provide time to implement this Act after the enactment of the fiscal year 2024 appropriations act containing the funding for this Act.
(5) Makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 42 as follows:
(1) This Act does not increase the amount of funeral expenses paid for the funeral of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue company.
(2) Consistent with legal interpretations of the existing law by state agencies, this Act continues to enable the payment of funeral expenses for the funeral of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue company even if the member was also a state employee entitled to burial benefits under § 8331 of Title 11, § 8395 of Title 11, § 8846 of Title 11, § 5316 of Title 29, or § 5546 of Title 29. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BURIAL BENEFITS. |
