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SJR6 - Directing Certain Professional Licensure Boards To Review And Revise Applications For Compliance With The Americans With Disabilities Act And Directing The Licensure Boards And The Department Of Justice To Provide Reports.
Sarah McBride, Valerie J. Longhurst, Eric Buckson
Last updated about 2 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it with language that meets the threshold requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-336. 26 July 1990), by focusing on present functional impairment and the ability to perform the essential requirements of the applicants profession with or without a reasonable accommodation. This resolution builds on the progress that the State of Delaware made in removing structural barriers to clinicians seeking mental health and wellbeing treatment through the enactment of Senate Bill 300 in 2022. The resolution also directs each licensure board and the Division of Professional Regulation to submit a report to the General Assembly by February 28, 2025 regarding the boards' review of their applications and certifying that the applications comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
STATUS
Passed
HB17 - An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Sick Time And Safety Leave.
Eric A. Morrison, Marie Pinkney, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated 7 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of paid time. Accrued earned sick time and safety leave may be used by the employee for time off with pay at the employees same wage and benefit rate to deal with the mental and physical health needs of either the employee or an employees family member and other specified purposes. Earned sick time and safety leave may also be used to address the consequences of domestic violence for such things as meeting with lawyers, obtaining services from victim service organizations, temporary relocation and the like.
STATUS
Introduced
SB227 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Information Technology Staff In Schools.
Laura Sturgeon, Cyndie Romer, William G. Bush
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
This Act creates dedicated information technology units for Delaware public schools. Currently, the State does not provide funding units for information technology employees, leaving districts and charter schools to finance these positions from a variety of funding streams. Information technology personnel are paid across various scales, including the salary scales for educators, custodians, and paraprofessionals. This creates inconsistency and impacts schools ability to hire other personnel such as teachers and counselors. For example, if a school or district funds an information technology position using the same unit that funds teacher salaries, that is one less teacher that the district or school can hire. This Act, which stems from the Public Education Compensation Committees October 2023 recommendations, prevents this scenario and ensures consistent funding for information technology staff at salary levels that are competitive regionally. This Act is effective July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB23 - An Act To Amend Title 14 And Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Administration Of Higher Education Financial Assistance Programs For Students Who Experienced Foster Care.
Krista Griffith, Kyle Evans Gay, Kyra L. Hoffner
Last updated 5 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
This Act does the following:
STATUS
Enrolled
HB15 - An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Ovarian Cancer.
Valerie J. Longhurst, Nicole Poore, Debra J. Heffernan
Last updated 8 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovarian cancer treatment.
STATUS
Passed
SB230 - An Act To Amend Title 25 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Community Canvassing.
Kyra L. Hoffner, Paul S. Baumbach, Kyle Evans Gay
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
This Act clarifies that elected officials may not be prevented from engaging in constituent relations and that candidates for public office or staff or volunteers may not be prevented from engaging in election-related or similar activities in residential communities.
STATUS
Introduced
HB311 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To A Safe School Zone.
Cyndie Romer, David P. Sokola, Kyle Evans Gay
Last updated 3 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
In many states acts of violence have been committed with the use of firearms on college and university campuses that have resulted in both injury and death to students and faculty. This Act adds post-secondary colleges and universities to the Safe School Zone criminal offense so that any person who knowingly possesses a firearm, as defined in Title 11, while in or on a college or university facility or campus may be charged with this additional offense. The same exceptions set forth in the statute will apply to a college or university.This Act also adds commissioned security guards to the categories of individuals who may possess a firearm while acting in their official capacity within a Safe School Zone. A person convicted under this section will be guilty of a Class E felony. This Act also makes a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
STATUS
Passed
HB313 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Mammograms.
DeShanna U. Neal, Marie Pinkney, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated 4 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This Act ensures that all female inmates in DDOC custody, at level IV or V, receive annual or biennial screening mammograms as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
STATUS
Passed
HB318 - An Act To Amend Title 10 And Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Exemptions In Bankruptcy And Debt Proceedings.
Paul S. Baumbach, David P. Sokola, Larry D. Lambert
Last updated 4 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the intervening years. It also increases the exemption for tools of the trade and for a vehicle to $25,000 from $15,000.
STATUS
Passed
HB19 - An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Special License Plates.
Eric A. Morrison, Kyra L. Hoffner, DeShanna U. Neal
Last updated 4 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
This Act creates a background special license plate for the United Way of Delaware Pride Council.
STATUS
Passed
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