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SB88 - An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Realty Transfer Tax.
Russ Huxtable, Elizabeth Lockman, Larry D. Lambert
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
This Act alters the State realty transfer tax credit offered to first-time home buyers.
STATUS
Introduced
HB158 - An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Cash Management Policy Board.
Paul S. Baumbach, Stephanie L. Hansen, Kyle Evans Gay
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
This bill transfers the placement of the Cash Management Policy Board from within the Department of Finance to the Office of the State Treasurer and provides that support for the Board shall be determined by the State Treasurer as is currently done.
STATUS
Passed
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
HB196 - An Act Making A One-time Supplemental Appropriation For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2024 To The Office Of Management And Budget.
William J. Carson, William Charles Paradee, Darius Brown
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
This Act appropriates $194,560,278 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
STATUS
Passed
SCR64 - Establishing The Non-acute Long-stay Patient Task Force To Study And Make Findings And Recommendations Regarding The Needs And Options Of Non-acute Hospital Patients In Need Of Transfer To A Lower Acuity Care Setting.
Nicole Poore, Kerri Evelyn Harris, Stephanie L. Hansen
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
This concurrent resolution establishes the Non-Acute Long-Stay Patient Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations regarding the needs and options of non-acute Long-Stay hospital patients in need of transition to a more appropriate care setting. Long-Stay is defined as patients that have been in the hospital for 15 days or more and no longer have an acute medical need warranting hospitalization. These individuals are awaiting transition because access to a more appropriate care setting is unavailable. This means there are individuals in acute medical hospital beds that no longer need to be, but various barriers such as lack of insurance coverage, delayed authorization or guardianship, barriers to admission into behavioral health facilities or long-term care, and more, are preventing them from acute medical hospital discharge. This unnecessarily increases health care costs and can have a negative impact on the patients who are missing out on getting the specialized care they need at a more appropriate care facility. This also means longer wait times for other patients in hospital emergency rooms as there is less bed availability. This concurrent resolution establishes a task force to study and make recommendations on these issues.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR18 - Recognizing May 11, 2023 As Delaware Local Government Day In The State Of Delaware.
Nicole Poore, Stephanie T. Bolden, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
20 Co-Sponsors
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes May 11, 2023 as Delaware Local Government Day in the State of 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 10 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
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
SB148 - An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act.
Laura Sturgeon, Krista Griffith, Kimberly Williams
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
This Act allows a practitioner with the authority to prescribe medication to give the unused portion of topical medication used during treatment to a patient upon discharge or the conclusion of the visit. This Act is based on the Model Act created by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which has been adopted in Illinois.
STATUS
Passed
SJR2 - Designating August 31, 2023, As "international Overdose Awareness Day" In The State Of Delaware.
Stephanie L. Hansen, Sherry Dorsey Walker, Paul S. Baumbach
Last updated over 1 year ago
15 Co-Sponsors
This resolution designates August 31, 2023, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware, affirms the importance of overdose awareness, and encourages expanded efforts to keep Delaware residents properly informed of the grief that comes from losing a loved one to overdose.
STATUS
Passed
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