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SB147 - An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Computer-related Offenses.
Laura Sturgeon, Bryan Townsend, John Walsh
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
This Act creates a narrow exception to the computer crimes under §§ 932, 933, and 935 of Title 11 because these crimes contain elements broad enough to include actions employees may take to document or report an employers violation of state or federal employment laws protecting the rights of employees. In addition to criminal penalties, § 941 of Title 11 allows a civil action for treble damages against an employee for a violation of any provision of §§ 932, 933, or 935 of Title 11.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB167 - An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Confidential Communications Involving First Responders, Civilian Employees, Or Their Families.
Marie Pinkney, Franklin D. Cooke, Nnamdi Chukwuocha
Last updated about 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
This Act establishes a wellness program designed to improve the well-being of first responders and first responders immediate family members, as well as civilian employees of police, fire, and emergency medical services agencies and their immediate family members, through the provision of wellness program services by trained peer support members. Wellness program services may include counseling, spiritual guidance, and education about financial resources, health resources, legal assistance, and stress management services.
STATUS
Passed
HJR3 - This Resolution Provides The Official Revenue, Refund, And Unencumbered Funds Estimates For Fiscal Year 2024.
William J. Carson, William Charles Paradee, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2024.
STATUS
Passed
HB263 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Meal Debt Restrictions On Student Participation In Extracurricular Activities.
Sherry Dorsey Walker, Brian Guy Pettyjohn, Laura Sturgeon
Last updated 4 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
STATUS
Passed
HB220 - An Act Proposing An Amendment To Article I Of The Delaware Constitution Relating To Protecting Delawares Natural Resources.
Madinah Wilson-Anton, Stephanie L. Hansen, Bryan Townsend
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and inalienable right for all Delawareans to a clean and healthy environment. The Amendment would also declare the State, including all of its branches, agencies, and political subdivisions, as trustee of the State's natural resources. By enacting this amendment Delaware would join other States which have or are seeking similar provisions, in their respective Constitutions, creating the same inherent and inalienable rights for their citizens.
STATUS
Introduced
HB197 - An Act Making Appropriations For Certain Grants-in-aid For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2024; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds; Amending The Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Act; Amending The Fiscal Year 2024 One-time Supplemental Appropriations Act; And Amending Certain Statutory Provisions.
William J. Carson, William Charles Paradee, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB169 - An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Wrongful Conviction Compensation And Services.
Kyra L. Hoffner, Sean M. Lynn, Darius Brown
Last updated about 2 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, parole, probation, and sex offender registration in the State for crimes that they did not commit. An individual claiming wrongful conviction or, if deceased, that individual's heirs, may bring a petition for compensation in Delaware Superior Court. A petitioner who makes the required showing is entitled to damages based on the type and period of wrongful incarceration, probation, parole, or registration, and other amounts, such as reasonable attorney fees in obtaining relief, subject to requirements of proof. However, a petitioner is not entitled to such compensation if the Department of Justice establishes that the petitioner was an accomplice in the commission of the crime or that the petitioner intentionally and voluntarily caused the conviction at issue by committing perjury or fabricating evidence at trial in order to prevent the conviction of the true perpetrator. In addition, an individual released from incarceration as the result of the reversal, overturning, or vacation of a conviction is entitled to emergency assistance and services.
STATUS
Passed
SB200 - An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Property Insurance Contracts.
David P. Sokola, Paul S. Baumbach, Stephanie L. Hansen
Last updated 5 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of cancellation or nonrenewal by USPS certified mail or USPS Intelligent Mail barcode. Further, whereas currently an insurer can cancel or non-renew a policy because of two non-weather-related claims over the lifetime of the policy, this legislation provides a reasonable claims lookback period for non-weather-related claims, as is already the case for claims in other portions of this subsection of the Code. Section 2 of this bill precludes an insurance carrier from refusing to renew a homeowners policy based on non-weather claims unless 2 or more claims occur within the 36-month period immediately preceding the expiration of the current policy period.
STATUS
Passed
HB279 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Bereavement Leave.
Debra J. Heffernan, Nicole Poore, Laura Sturgeon
Last updated 4 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
STATUS
Passed
SB188 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact.
Laura Sturgeon, Kyle Evans Gay, Bryan Townsend
Last updated 3 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the mobility of licensed teachers through the development of this new interstate compact. The ITMC will create reciprocity among participant states and reduce barriers to license portability and employment.
STATUS
Passed
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