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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
HB154 - An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Personal Data Privacy And Consumer Protection.
Krista Griffith, Bryan Townsend, Kyle Evans Gay
Last updated about 1 year ago
26 Co-Sponsors
This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, correct any inaccuracies, or request deletion of their personal data that is being maintained by entities or people.
STATUS
Passed
HB268 - An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Annual Behavioral Health Well Checks.
Valerie J. Longhurst, Nicole Poore, Nnamdi Chukwuocha
Last updated 3 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
House Bill No. 303, with House Amendment No. 2, from the 151st General Assembly created an annual behavioral health well check and required carriers to provide coverage for this service.
STATUS
Enrolled
SB153 - An Act To Amend Titles 12, 14, 16, And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Behavioral Health.
Sarah McBride, Kerri Evelyn Harris, Stephanie L. Hansen
Last updated about 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices.
STATUS
Passed
SCR37 - Recognizing April 29, 2023 As "world Wish Day" In Delaware.
Nicole Poore, Kerri Evelyn Harris, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
26 Co-Sponsors
This concurrent resolution recognizes April 29, 2023, as "World Wish Day" in Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB204 - An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Dental Care For Adult Medicaid Recipients.
Sarah McBride, Kerri Evelyn Harris, Madinah Wilson-Anton
Last updated 9 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Before October 1, 2020, Delaware was 1 of only 3 states that did not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid. With the enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill 92 (150th General Assembly) (Chapter 187 of Volume 82 of the Laws of Delaware) and Senate Bill No. 237 (150th General Assembly) (Chapter 290 of Volume 82 of the Laws of Delaware), Delaware began providing dental care benefits to eligible Medicaid recipients in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per year, with the potential for an additional $1,500 per year for emergency care with the approval of the Department of Health and Social Services ("Department").
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
SB194 - An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Practice Of Pharmacy.
Sarah McBride, Kerri Evelyn Harris, Eric A. Morrison
Last updated 3 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
This Act allows pharmacists, under protocol approved by the Division of Public Health, to provide HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis treatments.
STATUS
Enrolled
HB275 - An Act To Amend Title 6, Title 11, Title 18, Title 19, And Title 25 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Definition Of Sexual Orientation.
Eric A. Morrison, Laura Sturgeon, Sarah McBride
Last updated 3 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individuals may desire emotionally intimate relationships with other individuals. Pansexuality refers to individuals who are attracted sexually or romantically, or both, to another individual regardless of that individual's sex or gender identity.
STATUS
Enrolled
SB20 - An Act To Amend Title 14 And Title 29 Of The Delaware Code And Chapter 187 Of Volume 81 Of The Laws Of Delaware Relating To Donated Leave.
Bryan Townsend, Laura Sturgeon, Cyndie Romer
Last updated 3 months ago
34 Co-Sponsors
The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Delaware district HD-032
COMMITTEES
Delaware House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Kerri Evelyn Harris was born on July 6, 1980 in New Castle, Delaware. She attended and graduated from Delaware State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 2003. Harris served in the United State Air Force from 2000-2008. She achieved the rank of sergeant, serving stateside during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After leaving the Air Force in 2008, Harris worked assisting homeless and foster youth. In 2017, Harris co-founded nonprofit organization Shades of Us focused on discussing issues that affect marginalized communities. She also hosts podcast "Come Thru Queen," highlighting community activists. In 2018, Harris ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware.read less
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Delaware House from Delaware
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