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SCR57 - Supporting A Forthcoming Federal Resolution Recognizing Thomas Garrett As A Heroic Abolitionist.
Elizabeth Lockman, Stephanie T. Bolden, Sherry Dorsey Walker
Last updated over 1 year ago
50 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution supports a forthcoming federal resolution recognizing Thomas Garrett as a heroic abolitionist.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB202 - An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Line Of Duty Death Benefits.
Russ Huxtable, Kyra L. Hoffner, Bryan Townsend
Last updated 2 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
For claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act increases the benefits for the beneficiary or beneficiaries from $200,000 to $375,000, payable in annual installments, with the maximum amount paid in any 1 calendar year being $50,000.
STATUS
Passed
HB287 - An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Retired Law-enforcement Canines.
Timothy D. Dukes, Brian Guy Pettyjohn, David L. Wilson
Last updated about 1 month ago
13 Co-Sponsors
This act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a law-enforcement canine retired from a police department of a political subdivision of the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Passed
HB297 - An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Construction And Acceptance Of New Roads And Streets For State Maintenance.
Bryan W. Shupe, David L. Wilson, Eric A. Morrison
Last updated 3 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to be secured by a developer to ensure the developer fulfills the developer's obligations to construct and complete improvements within a subdivision.
STATUS
Passed
SCR17 - Recognizing March 2023 As "colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" In The State Of Delaware.
Nicole Poore, Paul S. Baumbach, Melissa Minor-Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 2023 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB112 - An Act To Amend Title 10 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Juveniles.
Nnamdi Chukwuocha, Bryan Townsend, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB 115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12, and limits delinquency proceedings for children under 12 to a small set of very serious crimes. This Act clarifies that children under 12 may not be arrested or placed in a detention facility pending adjudication, except where the alleged crime is one of the enumerated exceptions.
STATUS
Introduced
SB79 - An Act Proposing An Amendment To Article Ii And Article Iii Of The Delaware Constitution Relating To Term Limits.
Eric Buckson, Michael Ramone, Brian Guy Pettyjohn
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would create term limits for legislators and the Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner, Auditor of Accounts, and State Treasurer.
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
SB163 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Charter Schools.
David P. Sokola, Peter C. Schwartzkopf, Kyle Evans Gay
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This bill updates the States charter school law to codify the original intent of charter schools to encourage the use of different and innovative or proven school environments and teaching and learning methods; provide parents and students with measures of improved school and student performance and greater opportunities in choosing public schools within and outside their school districts; and to provide for a well-educated community.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB217 - An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Child Abuse And Neglect Investigations.
Sean M. Lynn, Kyra L. Hoffner
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
This Act requires that parents and other persons under investigation for child abuse and neglect be given written and oral notice of the allegations made against them; the right to consult counsel prior to speaking with a DSCYF investigator; the right to refuse entry to the DSCYF investigator; the right to withhold consent to medical examinations of the children; the right to refuse to submit to a drug test; and the right to consult legal counsel prior to signing a safety plan.
STATUS
Introduced
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