An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Special Funds. [SB-11]
This Act relates to police and fire pension funds created under Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The General Assembly created a special fund in the hopes of ensuring adequate pensions for affected police officers and firefighters, and their surviving spouses. This has not come to pass with regard to all pensions, however. By way of example only, the average surviving spouse in the Wilmington Police and Fire retirement plan receives a pension of only $10,080, which is $1,090 dollars below the 2012 poverty level. Moreover, there have been only five
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SB-11: An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Special Funds.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Signed By Governor on 08/29/2018
An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Student Entrepreneur Platform. [SB-112]
This Act creates the Delaware Student Entrepreneur Program Fund. The primary purposes of the Act are as follows: (1) To attract and retain high-skilled, entrepreneurs, including immigrants to the United States, that graduated from Delaware higher education institutions (2) To help fund and develop new businesses in Delaware and create job opportunities in Delaware for Delawares young citizens in the areas of innovation and technology that are poised to grow in the 21st century economy; (3) To attract global entrepreneurs to Delaware higher education
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SB-112: An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Student Entrepreneur Platform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Reported Out Of Committee (elections & Government Affairs) In Senate With 3 On Its Merits on 06/27/2017
An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To A Delaware Voluntary Clean Energy Financing Program Through Local Government Assessments. [SB-113]
This bill authorizes the creation of a Delaware Voluntary Property Assessed Clean Energy (D-PACE) program to establish a clean energy financing program for the installation of energy efficiency technologies and clean energy systems for qualifying commercial real properties statewide. PACE programs are authorized in more than 30 states nationwide. The financing will be secured by and payable from a voluntary assessment imposed on the property benefited by the qualifying energy improvement. The bill calls upon the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU)
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SB-113: An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To A Delaware Voluntary Clean Energy Financing Program Through Local Government Assessments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Signed By Governor on 08/29/2018
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SB-145: An Act Making Appropriations For The Expense Of The State Government For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2019; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds; And Amending Certain Pertinent Statutory Provisions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melanie Smith
Introduced And Assigned To Finance Committee In Senate on 01/25/2018
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SB-148: An Act To Amend Titles 16 And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Restoration Of The Delaware Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz
Introduced And Assigned To Health, Children & Social Services Committee In Senate on 01/10/2018
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An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Native Species Commission. [SB-153]
This Act creates the Delaware Native Species Commission ("Commission"), which is one of the recommendations of the Statewide Ecological Extinction Task Force, created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 20 of the 149th General Assembly. The Commission will terminate 10 years from enactment unless extended by the General Assembly.
SB-153: An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Native Species Commission.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 06/07/2018
An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Road Construction Flaggers. [SB-155]
This Act prohibits a flagger from using headphones or electronic communication devices while engaged in traffic control in a work zone. This Act permits a flagger to use an electronic communication device approved by the Department of Transportation. This Act makes a violation of this prohibition a civil traffic offense that is not entered on an individuals motor vehicle record.
SB-155: An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Road Construction Flaggers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Tabled In Committee on 04/18/2018
An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Expedited Partner Therapy. [SB-157]
Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without clinical assessment of the partners. In August 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended EPT as an evidence-based option to manage chlamydial infection and gonorrhea by treating index patients sex partners to prevent reinfection and curtail further transmission. As of July 2017, EPT is permissible in 41 states.
SB-157: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Expedited Partner Therapy.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz
Signed By Governor on 08/29/2018
An Act To Amend Title 7 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Types Of Fishing Equipment And Methods Used For Fishing For Food Fish. [SB-158]
This Act allows a person to land food fish in Delaware that was caught using equipment or a method illegal in Delaware waters if the food fish was caught in the fishery conservation zone, the person has the necessary State and federal permits, the amount of the food fish is in compliance with an established State quota, and the equipment or method is legal the fishery conservation zone. This change is necessary so that a person who needs to fish in the fishery conservation zone to reach an established State quota of fish can safely and efficiently
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SB-158: An Act To Amend Title 7 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Types Of Fishing Equipment And Methods Used For Fishing For Food Fish.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Signed By Governor on 04/05/2018
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