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HB26 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To State Employee Leave.
William G. Bush, William Charles Paradee, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated over 1 year ago
36 Co-Sponsors
This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard.
STATUS
Passed
HCR2 - Commemorating January 22nd, 2023 As The 50th Anniversary Of The United States Supreme Court Ruling In Roe V. Wade
Melissa Minor-Brown, Kyle Evans Gay, Stephanie L. Hansen
Last updated almost 2 years ago
24 Co-Sponsors
This Concurrent Resolution commemorates January 22nd, 2023 as the 50th Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB49 - An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Unemployment Benefits And Employer Assessments.
Edward S. Osienski, Bryan Townsend, John Walsh
Last updated almost 2 years ago
8 Co-Sponsors
This Act provides post-pandemic related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes. This bill will increase the maximum weekly benefit amount payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance from $400.00 a week to $450.00 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts will be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. Delaware currently pays unemployment claimants less per week in benefits than claimants are paid in each neighboring state. The maximum weekly benefit amount has not changed since 2019.
STATUS
Passed
HB60 - An Act To Amend Titles 18, 29, And 31 Relating To Breast Cancer Screening And Diagnostic Procedures.
Cyndie Romer, Nicole Poore, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
25 Co-Sponsors
To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, this Act requires that all insurance policies issued or renewed in this State include coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations on terms that are at least as favorable as the coverage of annual screening mammograms. The Act covers all group, blanket, and individual health insurance policies (except specified accident, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, long-term care or other limited benefit health insurance policies) as well as the State employee healthcare plan and Medicaid.
STATUS
Passed
HCR16 - Directing The Delaware Department Of Education To Issue A Report Analyzing The Benefits Of Virtual Learning In A Post-covid Learning Environment.
Kimberly Williams, Laura Sturgeon, Michael Ramone
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
This Concurrent Resolution directs the Department of Education to issue a report assessing the advantages and disadvantages of virtual learning for kindergarten through grade 12 students in a post-COVID learning environment, to include a review of all current virtual learning options in the State.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB65 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Bereavement Leave.
Debra J. Heffernan, Nicole Poore, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
According to the Mayo Clinic, miscarriages occur in about 20% of all pregnancies, and generally, in the first 12 weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 out of every 100 American pregnancies ends in stillbirth. Black women have a significantly higher risk of miscarrying 43% higher when compared to white women. Black mothers are also more than twice as likely to experience stillbirth compared to Hispanic and white mothers.
STATUS
Passed
HB85 - An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Special License Plates.
Stephanie T. Bolden, Marie Pinkney, Elizabeth Lockman
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
This Act creates a special license plate for retired state legislators. This Act shall be known as "The Senator Margaret Rose Henry Act".
STATUS
Passed
SB33 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Department Of Services For Children, Youth And Their Families.
Kyle Evans Gay, Bryan Townsend, Krista Griffith
Last updated over 1 year ago
20 Co-Sponsors
This bill adopts a key recommendation of the Child Protection Accountability Commission Caseloads and Workloads final report approved on November 20, 2019, that Division of Family Services (DFS) caseload standards be reduced from 18 to 12 families per worker. Due to the volume of work generated by a caseload of 18 families, workers are significantly restricted in the time they can spend on critical case activities such as family engagement, assessment of safety, and face-to-face contact with children and families.
STATUS
Passed
SB24 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Seizure Safe Schools Act.
Kyra L. Hoffner, Nicole Poore, Madinah Wilson-Anton
Last updated almost 2 years ago
14 Co-Sponsors
This Act requires all schools with a student diagnosed with a seizure disorder to train at least 2 employees in the administration of rescue medication or treatment prescribed to treat a student with a seizure disorder. Training includes the administration of a manual dose of prescribed electrical stimulation using a Vagus Nerve Stimulator magnet. A school nurse employed full-time by a school is not required to meet these training requirements but may serve as 1 of the 2 required employees that are trained in the administration of seizure rescue medications.
STATUS
Introduced
SB46 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Missing Persons.
Darius Brown, Kendra Johnson, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated about 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year.
STATUS
Passed
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