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Delaware 145th General Assembly
An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Registration Of Vehicles. [SB-251]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
This Bill provides for a special Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition license plate. It also includes a remittance to the Coalition of $100 per initial application to further awareness of and early detection of breast cancer.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Hocker
Assigned To Executive Committee In Senate on 05/06/2010
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An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Reciprocal Preferences. [SB-256]
[Trade ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
A number of states give local businesses some sort of preference when they contract for goods and services. Preferences may be “all other things being equal” it goes to the local business or some percentage by which the local business’ bid may be higher than an out-of-state business’s bid. This Act simply says that whatever another state does to Delaware businesses, Delaware may do to businesses from that State.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Hocker
Assigned To Small Business Committee In Senate on 05/11/2010
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An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Commerce And Trade. [SB-26]
[Trade ]
Sections 1 and 2 provide an alternative form for a UCC Financing Statement Amendment and the Addendum therefore. Section 3 provides that this Act shall become effective August 1, 2009.
Sponsored by: Sen. Colin Bonini
Signed By Governor on 05/19/2009
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An Act To Amend The Delaware Code Relating To The Right To Farm And Public And Private Nuisance Actions. [SB-265]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
This Bill clarifies that all agricultural related operations be protected from both private and public nuisance actions, unless they result from negligence or improper operation or violate federal law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 07/12/2010
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An Act To Amend Title 26 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Net Energy Metering. [SB-267]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
This bill will further strengthen net energy metering provisions by providing customers the opportunity to aggregate individual meters for the purpose of allocating net metering credits to electricity accounts other than the account that hosts an energy generating facility. The bill also provides community choice aggregation provisions for community-owned energy generating facilities that are established by a group of customers. Recognizing that not all customers own properties that are favorable for energy generating facilities, the community-owned
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Signed By Governor on 07/28/2010
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An Act To Amend Article Xv Of The Constitution Of The State Of Delaware Relating To Marriage [SB-27]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
This is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment to establish marriage between one man and one woman as the only legally recognized union in the State of Delaware.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Substituted In Senate By Ss 1 For Sb 27 on 03/26/2009
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An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health Care Practices. [SB-275]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
The Bill will authorize and require the Delaware Board of Medical Practice, the agency that oversees physician licensure, to require doctors applying for licensure or relicensure to present service letters from health care facilities through which they have had direct access to patients, or admitting or staff privileges, attesting to their good character. The letters would contain information, if it exists, about any reasonably substantiated incidents involving violence, threats of violence, abuse or neglect toward any other person, including any
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Signed By Governor on 07/30/2010
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An Act To Reincorporate The Town Of Ocean View. [SB-278]
[Community Development ]
[Elections ]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
After review by the Town Council, the Town’s staff, and based upon its historical experience with the current Charter, and after conducting public hearings, the Town Council proposed the reincorporation of the Town. The following articles and sections would be amended or modified by the new Charter as follows: 1. Article I, Section 1.102, relating to Corporate Limits provides: (a) All previously annexed properties have been added to the verbal description of the Town limits; (b) Includes adjacent streets, roads and streams, rivers and canals, or
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Hocker Signed By Governor on 07/15/2010
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An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Public Works Contracting. [SB-28]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
This Act amends the existing prevailing wage language under 6960 of Title 29 by ensuring that prevailing wages for school district construction projects shall be no higher than the prevailing wages in effect at the time of the passage of the referendum.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Assigned To Labor & Industrial Relations Committee In Senate on 03/24/2009
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An Act To Amend Title 12 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Trusts. [SB-282]
[Taxes ]
Many wills and trusts contain formula clauses allocating shares of a decedent’s estate or trust estate based on Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to federal estate tax exemptions and generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions. The federal estate tax and generation-skipping transfer tax are repealed for calendar year 2010 but, under current law, will be reinstated in calendar year 2011. The bill is intended to create a presumption that if a decedent’s formula clause had different beneficiaries of the different shares of his estate or trust
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Sponsored by: Sen. Colin Bonini
Signed By Governor on 07/12/2010