| SCR 8 | Passed | Lockman | This resolution recognizes January 2025, as “National Mentoring Month” in the State of Delaware. | RECOGNIZING JANUARY 2025, AS “NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| HCR 6 | Passed | Ross Levin | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 27th, 2025 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. | RECOGNIZING JANUARY 27TH, 2025 AS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. |
| SCR 12 | Passed | Townsend | This resolution establishes a Retail Crime Prevention Task Force. The co-chairs of the Task Force are directed to compile a report containing a summary of the Task Force’s work regarding the issues assigned to it, including any findings and recommendations related to those issues, and submit the report no later than February 1, 2026. | ESTABLISHING THE RETAIL CRIME PREVENTION TASK FORCE. |
| SA 1 to SB 38 | PWB | Lawson | This Amendment changes the amount available for reimbursement to the owner of a retired law-enforcement horse from up to $3,000 to up to $5,000 per year for documented farrier and veterinary care expenses. | |
| SB 52 | Committee | Buckson | Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is under age 65 and limits annual earnings by temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employees to $50,000 before an individual’s earnings affect the amount of the individual’s pension.
To alleviate staffing shortages in schools and state agencies with 24-hour shifts, this Act removes the earnings limit beginning calendar year 2025, lowers the age when the separation of service period applies to individuals who are under 59 ½ years old, and reduces the required separation of service period to 3 months. This Act also clarifies that the pensioners may be employed as substitute teachers by charter schools under the same requirements as school districts.
To comply with federal law, this Act makes the bona fide 3-month separation period applicable to all pensioners employed under § 5502(a) of Title 29.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF STATE PENSIONERS. |
| SS 1 for SB 41 | Committee | Buckson | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 41. Both this Act and SB 41 ban the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding with the intent to sell, and offering for sale in Delaware of food that contains Red dye 3 (CAS no. 16423-68-0). After the release of SB 41, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the authorization to use Red dye 3 in food and ingested drugs under the Delaney Clause of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Delaney Clause prohibits FDA authorization of a food or color additive if it has been found to induce cancer in humans or animals. This substitute retains the prohibition against Red dye 3 in food products to ensure it will remain banned in the State of Delaware.
This Act differs from SB 41 by:
(1) Adding and defining the term “color additive”.
(2) Banning the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding with the intent to sell, and offering for sale in Delaware of food that contains the color additive, Red dye 40 (CAS no. 25956-17-6).
Red dye 40 is a synthetic food coloring derived from petroleum. It is found in food products such as cereal, beverages, gelatins, puddings, popsicles, chips, dairy products, and confections. As with Red dye 3, Red dye 40 is used solely to enhance the appearance of food and does not provide any nutritional value.
Consumption of Red dye 40 has been associated with hyperactivity, aggression, and other neurobehavioral problems in some children. Red dye 40 may also be linked with migraines and learning difficulties. The European Union requires a warning label to be placed on food products with Red dye 40, stating that it “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children”.
In addition to banning Red dye 3, California became the first state to prohibit the provision of and sale of foods in schools that contain Red dye 40. Presently, 9 other states have introduced legislation to ban, limit, or require warning labels on food products containing Red dye 40.
(3) Changing the effective date of this Act to January 15, 2027, to align with the date by which Red dye 3 must be removed from foods under federal law.
The penalty provisions remain the same in this substitute; any person that violates this Act is subject to a civil penalty as follows:
(1) For a first occurrence, not to exceed $5,000, in addition to costs.
(2) For a subsequent occurrence, not to exceed $10,000, in addition to costs.
Each day on which a violation of this Act occurs constitutes a separate occurrence. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PURE FOOD AND DRUGS. |
