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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
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
HCR68 - Requesting The Counties And Municipalities Confer And Provide Recommendations For Improving Accessible Parking Infrastructure, Enforcement, And Compliance To The General Assembly.
DeShanna U. Neal, Nicole Poore, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
This resolution asks representatives from New Castle County, Kent County, Sussex County, and the League of Local governments to convene to provide recommendations for improving accessible parking enforcement, compliance, signage, and uniformity in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR59 - Recognizing May 22, 2023 As National Maritime Day.
Russ Huxtable, Peter C. Schwartzkopf, Gerald W. Hocker
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This Concurrent Resolution recognizes May 22, 2023 as National Maritime Day in Delaware.
STATUS
Engrossed
HCR56 - Acknowledging June 2023 As Lgbtq+ Pride Month In Delaware.
Eric A. Morrison, Sarah McBride, Bryan Townsend
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
This Concurrent Resolution acknowledges June 2023 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the State of Delaware.
STATUS
Enrolled
HB143 - An Act To Amend Title 5 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Interest Rates On Loans To Individuals.
Sean M. Lynn, Elizabeth Lockman, Marie Pinkney
Last updated over 1 year ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. This Act caps interest rates at 20% for short-term consumer loans of $1,000 or less that must be repaid in less than 60 days and motor vehicle title loans.
STATUS
Introduced
HB229 - An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Redding Consortium For Educational Equity.
Nnamdi Chukwuocha, Elizabeth Lockman, Cyndie Romer
Last updated about 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
This Act removes the required window for submission of a final plan from the Redding Consortium to the State Board of Education and instead requires that the State Board act on any plan submitted by the Redding Consortium within 3 months. It also allows for the Redding Consortium to submit an interim plan prior to the completion of its full plan. Finally, it provides that the Consortiums final report may include recommendations for policies and practices for systematic reform to address the negative impacts of the Neighborhood Schools Act.
STATUS
Passed
HB246 - An Act To Amend Title 9 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Establishing Uniform Minimum Riparian Buffer Areas.
Sophie Phillips, Russ Huxtable, Valerie J. Longhurst
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Currently each county has its own riparian buffer requirements. The intent of this Act is to make minimum riparian buffer areas uniform throughout the State in unincorporated areas and incorporated municipalities that do not hold a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System(MS4) permit. This Act creates a new Chapter 10A of Title 9 which sets forth the following minimum riparian buffer areas: (1) 300 feet to the streamline, as defined by the mean high water line, of any tidal water body, tidal steam or tidal marsh; (2) 300 feet to the shoreline, as defined by the mean highwater line, of any nontidal freshwater body, lake, pond, or blue-line stream; and (3) 50 feet to the shoreline or top of bank, as defined by a greater than 50% change in slope in a distance of less than 10 feet of any non-blueline stream, creek or drainage ditch. The Act sets forth permitted uses not subject to the minimum buffer requirements. The Act requires the 3 Counties to adopt substantive and technical rules and regulations to implement the minimum riparian buffer areas and establish rules for specified uses. The Act requires all 3 Counties, by June 30, 2024 to amend their land use laws by adopting the minimum riparian buffer areas and adopting rules and regulations. The Act permits the Planning and Land Use Departments, in conjunction with the County Planning Directors, to create a coordinated program that educates and trains the public about the requirements of this Act. This Act takes effect on June 30, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB123 - An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Patient Abuse.
Spiros Mantzavinos, Brian Guy Pettyjohn, Kendra Johnson
Last updated about 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
This Act provides that any adult day care facility required to be licensed under Chapter 1 of Title 16 is subject to the existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code.
STATUS
Passed
SB150 - An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Dementia Care Services In Long-term Care Facilities.
Spiros Mantzavinos, Brian Guy Pettyjohn, Kendra Johnson
Last updated 4 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 150. Like Senate Bill No. 150, this Act requires included facilities have sufficient staff to meet the needs of each resident and requires dementia care services training for staff. This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 150 in the following ways: (1) it removes the definition of activity services; (2) it defines direct care, secured memory care unit, and memory care services; (3) it requires that assisted living facilities providing dementia care services to residents in a secured memory care unit create a staffing plan that ensures the facility has sufficient staff to meet the scheduled, reasonably foreseeable unscheduled, and evolving needs of residents and; (4) it charges the Department of Health and Social Services with reviewing the staffing plan during each annual inspection and during any other inspection in which the Department deems it relevant; (5) it revises initial dementia care services training requirement by limiting the requirement to individuals that provide care in a secured memory care unit of an assisted living facility, creating separate training requirements, both in terms of duration and content, for individuals that provide direct care and non-direct care to residents receiving dementia care services in secured memory care units of assisted living facilities; (6) it revises the annual dementia care services training requirement to mirror initial dementia services training requirements; (7) it establishes dementia care services training requirements for individuals employed by temporary staffing agencies; (8) it gives the Department of Health and Social Services the discretion to accept other required dementia care services training to satisfy the dementia care services training requirements; (9) it details the transferability of training between facilities and temporary staffing agencies; and (10) it narrows the scope from all long-term care facilities to only assisted living facilities.
STATUS
Passed
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