An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Providing For An Extension Of The Historic Preservation Tax Credit Act. [SB-209]
This Act provides for a 10-year extension to the Historic Preservation Tax Credit Act which is scheduled to expire in June 2010. Seventy-five (75) historic buildings throughout the State have been rehabilitated and preserved for future generations as a result of this program. Since its inception in 2001, the State has awarded $34 million in tax credits that have leveraged more than $166 million in private-sector rehabilitation expenditures plus additional tens of millions in site acquisition investments. These investments have produced an estimated
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SB-209: An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Providing For An Extension Of The Historic Preservation Tax Credit Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Outten
Signed By Governor on 07/19/2010
An Act To Amend Title 13 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Division Of Child Support Enforcement. [SB-213]
This Bill would allow the Division of Child Support Enforcement to disburse support payments electronically, either by direct deposit to a bank account or to a stored value card, instead of by mailing checks. Provision is made for exceptions to this practice where disbursing payments to the child support obligee by electronic transfer is not feasible.
SB-213: An Act To Amend Title 13 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Division Of Child Support Enforcement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 06/10/2010
An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Mental Health. [SB-221]
This Bill updates the statute that allows the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services to authorize surgical procedures for persons receiving residential services from the Division. It expands the range of potentially available relatives to authorize elective surgery for persons receiving services from the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services. It expands the scope of the authorization to diagnostic procedures and corrects the statutory definition of who is covered by this law.
SB-221: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Mental Health.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Bushweller
Signed By Governor on 07/15/2010
An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Insurance. [SB-223]
Title 18 of the Delaware Code requires that an affidavit of merit be filed under seal when a lawsuit alleging medical malpractice is filed. This affidavit by plaintiff's expert witness is an opinion that the defendant has breached the applicable minimum standard of care and that this breach caused injury to the plaintiff. This amendment removes an existing ambiguity regarding necessary qualifications of an expert who provides this affidavit in cases where the defendant is a health care provider other than a medical doctor, e.g. a hospital or other
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SB-223: An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Insurance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Reported Out Of Committee (economic Development/banking/insurance/commerce) In House With 6 On Its Merits on 06/23/2010
An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Crimes Against Children And Specific Offenses. [SB-229]
This Act implements one of the recommendations made in the Final Report of the Independent Review of the Earl Brian Bradley Case which was commissioned by the Governor and was issued on May 10, 2010. The Act clarifies who is in a “position of trust, authority or supervision over a child” and may therefore be subject to the enhanced penalties associated with the crimes defining sexual abuse of children. This Act also consolidates those provisions of the present criminal code concerning rape and unlawful sexual conduct that contain “position of trust”
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SB-229: An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Crimes Against Children And Specific Offenses.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Outten
Signed By Governor on 06/30/2010
An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Creating The Delaware Prescription Monitoring Act. [SB-235]
This Bill is the Delaware Prescription Monitoring Program Act. It provides for the establishment of a program for the monitoring of prescribing and dispensing Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances and other drugs of concern by the Office of Controlled Substances of the Division of Professional Regulation. It requires dispensers to submit certain information regarding the dispensing of controlled substances. That information is compiled into a database that can be accessed by physicians and other prescribers to provide them additional
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SB-235: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Creating The Delaware Prescription Monitoring Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Signed By Governor on 07/15/2010