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SCR48 - Recognizing May 2023 As "older Americans Month" In The State Of Delaware.
Spiros Mantzavinos, Darius Brown, Melissa Minor-Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes May 2023 as "Older Americans Month" in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR74 - Proclaiming Monday, June 12, 2023, As "women Veterans Day" In The State Of Delaware.
Brian Guy Pettyjohn, David G. Lawson, William J. Carson
Last updated over 1 year ago
38 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims Monday, June 12, 2023, as Women Veterans Day in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR107 - Honoring The Life And Work Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On The Occasion Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day".
Darius Brown, Elizabeth Lockman, Bryan Townsend
Last updated 11 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 15, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB117 - An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Professions And Occupations.
Michael Ramone, Brian Guy Pettyjohn, Kendra Johnson
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.
STATUS
Passed
HB119 - An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Rules Of The Road.
Timothy D. Dukes, Gerald W. Hocker, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Delaware is one of five states that does not have an open container law, which is in direct violation of federal regulations. This Bill bans open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles and provides a civil penalty for an offense. A violation of this section would not be entered on an individuals driving record.
STATUS
Engrossed
HCR37 - Recognizing The Month Of April 2023 As "national Donate Life Month" In Delaware.
Peter C. Schwartzkopf, Russ Huxtable, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
This Resolution recognizes the month of April 2023 as "National Donate Life Month" in Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR60 - Designating May 25, 2023, As Africa Day In The State Of Delaware.
Marie Pinkney, Madinah Wilson-Anton, Melissa Minor-Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
35 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates May 25, 2023, as Africa Day in Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
HCR58 - Commending Dana Carey Representing The Lake Forest School District For Being Selected As Delaware's Behavioral Health Professional Of The Year For 2023 And Commending Each School District And Charter Network's Behavioral Health Professional Of The Year.
Valerie J. Longhurst, Nicole Poore, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
22 Co-Sponsors
This Concurrent Resolution commends the 2023 Delaware Behavioral Health Professional of the Year, Dana Carey, and all of the District/Charter Network Behavioral Health Professionals of the Year.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB296 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Prevailing Wage.
Bryan W. Shupe, Eric Buckson, Gerald W. Hocker
Last updated 10 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
This Act grants school districts and charter schools the ability to decide if they want to pay prevailing wage for school construction projects.
STATUS
Introduced
HB142 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Crimes And Criminal Procedure
Eric A. Morrison, Sarah McBride, Bryan Townsend
Last updated about 1 year ago
35 Co-Sponsors
This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth of the victim is sufficient to explain, excuse, or justify the defendant's conduct, or contributes to or causes the defendant's mental state, or that the defendants reaction thereto constitutes a mental illness, mental defect, or mental disorder sufficient to excuse or justify the defendant's conduct (including under circumstances in which the victim made a nonviolent romantic or sexual advance toward the defendant or in which the defendant and the victim dated or had a romantic or sexual relationship). Sections 1 and 3 of this bill move the definitions for gender identity and sexual orientation currently in the hate crimes statute to the general definitions section of the Criminal Code to maintain standard definitions of these terms throughout the Criminal Code. Section 2 of this bill provides that in any prosecution or sentencing for an offense: (i) a defendant is not justified in using force against another based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; (ii) for the purposes of determining whether there is a reasonable explanation or excuse for the existence of extreme emotional disturbance or other asserted mitigating factor or circumstance, such explanation or excuse is not reasonable if it is based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth; and (iii) a defendant does not suffer from a mental illness, mental defect, mental disorder, serious mental disorder, psychiatric disorder, or other impairment affecting or impacting the defendants mental state relating to any questions of intent, knowledge, capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the defendant's conduct, disturbance of the defendant's thinking, feeling or behavior, culpability, willpower to choose whether to do or refrain from doing an act, or ability to distinguish right from wrong, based on the discovery of, knowledge or belief about, or the potential or actual disclosure of the victims actual or perceived sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or sex assigned at birth.
STATUS
Passed
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