Sen. Harris McDowell

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District SD-001
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 8

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State (Delaware)
Delaware 150th General Assembly

An Act Making Appropriations For Certain Grants-in-aid For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2021; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds; Amending The Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations Act; And Amending Certain Statutory Provisions. [SB-260]
This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis Signed By Governor on 06/30/2020

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State (Delaware)
Delaware 150th General Assembly

Honoring Joy C. Bower, Secretary Of The Senate, Upon Her Retirement After 32 Years Of Distinguished Years Of Service To The Delaware State Senate. [SR-32]
This Senate Resolution pays tribute and extends a fond farewell to Secretary of the Senate Joy C. Bower upon her retirement after 32 years of distinguished service to the Senate.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Colin Bonini Introduced In Senate on 06/30/2020

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Delaware 150th General Assembly

Honoring Delaware's Senior Senator, The Honorable Harris Brown Mcdowell, Iii, Upon His Retirement From The Senate After Some 44 Years Of Service. [SR-44]
This Senate Resolution pays tribute to Delaware's senior senator, Harris B. McDowell, III, upon his retirement from the Senate after some 44 years of exemplary service.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Colin Bonini Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 Yes on 07/01/2020

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State (Delaware)
Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Titles 7 And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Powers And Duties Of The Delaware Open Space Council, The Parks And Recreation Council And The Delaware Council On Greenways And Trails. [HB-106]
This act implements changes requested by the Delaware Open Space Council. Pursuant to the Act, responsibility for reviewing and recommending projects for funding from the Conservation Trust Fund is transferred from the Delaware Open Space Council to the Parks and Recreation Council. This bill also enacts language to assure that the respective councils have authority to recommend that DNREC adopt rules and regulations necessary to perform their statutory responsibilities.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Signed By Governor on 04/08/2010

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Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Chapter 60, Title 7 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Recycling And Waste Reduction In The State Of Delaware. [HB-15]
It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this Bill, to encourage the use of reusable bags by consumers and retailers and to reduce the consumption of limited use plastic carryout bags that require massive quantities of oil, cause countless pollution, and, as such bags decompose, are harmful to the health of the environment and humans. This Bill would require a store, as defined, to establish an at-store recycling program that provides an opportunity for a customer of the store to return clean plastic carryout bags to that store. The Bill (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Signed By Governor on 08/17/2009

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Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Drug Offenses. [HB-168]
This Bill repeals mandatory minimum sentences in Title 16 relating to violations of our drug laws, returning to our State’s outstanding judiciary the discretion to pronounce sentences appropriate to the cases and individuals before them. Delaware’s sentencing guidelines and Truth-in-Sentencing Law will remain in force, helping to guide judges in their decisions and ensuring offenders’ completion of their sentences. Allowing judges to individually craft criminal sentences will result in more accurate sentences, thereby reducing the injustice, elevated (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson Reported Out Of Committee (judiciary) In House With 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable on 06/23/2009

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Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Titles 10 And 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Records Of Arrest And Prosecution. [HB-169]
This Act eliminates the five-year waiting period for a person who has successfully completed the Probation Before Judgment (“PBJ”) program, and the two-year waiting period for a person who has successfully completed the First Offenders Controlled Substances Diversion Program (“CSDP”), to obtain an expungement of the arrest and conviction records relating to that offense. This Act clarifies that offenses for which records have been expunged do not have to be disclosed as arrests. This Act also corrects for what appear to be inadvertent omissions (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Hs 1 For Hb 169 - Amendment Sa 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: Passed 19 Yes 0 No 0 Not Voting 2 Absent 0 Vacant on 07/01/2010

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Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Crimes And Criminal Procedure. [HB-171]
This bill establishes a moratorium on executions in Delaware pending completion of the Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project’s study of the death penalty in Delaware and an opportunity for the Governor and the General Assembly to act upon its findings.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson Stricken on 06/11/2009

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Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Life And Health Insurance Guaranty Association. [HB-202]
This bill makes a series of amendments to Chapter 44, Title 18 of the Delaware Code with the intent of implementing changes to the Delaware Life And Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act to ensure in a liquidation of a life and/or health insurance company licensed in Delaware that procedures are in place to ensure an organized liquidation of such company with the appropriate protections for the policyholders of such company.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Signed By Governor on 01/26/2010

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State (Delaware)
Delaware 145th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Credit Services Organizations. [HB-221]
This Act gives the Attorney General more options for enforcing the statute that regulates credit repair companies. The current provision provides only for injunctive relief in civil enforcement actions by the Attorney General.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Signed By Governor on 06/28/2010

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