An Act To Amend Titles 19 And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To An Employment First Priority Policy For Persons With Disabilities. [HB-319]
All persons with disabilities, including veterans with service-connected disabilities, have a right to the opportunity for competitive employment. To promote the realization of this right, this bill creates the Employment First Act. The Act requires that state agencies that provide services and support to persons with disabilities shall consider, as their first option, competitive employment in an integrated setting for persons with disabilities. The Act does not require an employer to give preference to hiring persons with disabilities. The Act
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HB-319: An Act To Amend Titles 19 And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To An Employment First Priority Policy For Persons With Disabilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 07/16/2012
You have voted HB-319: An Act To Amend Titles 19 And 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To An Employment First Priority Policy For Persons With Disabilities..
You have voted HB-325: An Act To Amend Titles 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 23, 29 And 30 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Sheriffs And Sheriff Deputies..
An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Personal Income Tax. [HB-350]
This bill creates a fund for the Home of the Brave Foundation for the purpose of allowing individual taxpayers to designate on their Delaware income tax return donations to the Home of the Brave Foundation Fund. The Home of the Brave Foundation is a non-profit organization with the primary goal of assisting homeless Veterans gain control of their lives by, among other things, providing shelter, vocational counseling, and access or referrals to psychotherapy and substance abuse treatment programs.
HB-350: An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Personal Income Tax.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson
Signed By Governor on 07/27/2012
An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. [HB-355]
This bill establishes the Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. The Act prohibits an employer from terminating or taking any other disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency responder if such employee, when acting as a voluntary emergency responder, is absent from his or her place of employment for a Governor-declared State of Emergency lasting up to 7 days or a President-declared National Emergency lasting up to 14 days. The Act further prohibits an employer from terminating or taking any other disciplinary
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HB-355: An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Introduced And Assigned To Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee In House on 06/05/2012
An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Bail Bond Agents. [HB-363]
Revisions to the bail bond statutes are necessary in order to curb abuses of the bail bond system, and better serve the citizens and courts of the State of Delaware. Under the statutes, the Insurance Department regulates a large contingent of bail bond agents. The statutes cover both surety bond bail agents, who post surety bonds issued by an insurance company, and property or cash bail agents, who post cash or property bails. Many agents operate both as surety bond bail agents and cash or property bail agents. This bill will achieve the following
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HB-363: An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Bail Bond Agents.
Sponsored by: Sen. Margaret Henry
Lifted From Table In Senate on 06/30/2012
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Education And Exceptional Children. [HB-365]
This Act allows parents and guardians who successfully challenge the denial of services to their children with special needs to recover the costs of expert witnesses that they needed to hire to advocate for their children. Prior to 2006, many courts held parents were entitled to recover such costs under the IDEA, but a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed the holdings. Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291 (2006). Since that time, many families have been unable to pursue appeals for their children due to the prohibitive
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HB-365: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Education And Exceptional Children.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melanie Smith
Signed By Governor on 08/09/2012
An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Investigating The Abuse Of Children. [HB-371]
This Act ensures that the investigation and disposition of cases of child abuse or neglect are conducted in a comprehensive, integrated and multi-disciplinary manner, thereby significantly reducing existing communication and coordination gaps in the investigation and disposition of such cases. In order to accomplish the foregoing, the Act does the following: 1. Uses the case management system of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families ("DSCYF") to track every case of child abuse and neglect from inception to final disposition;
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HB-371: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Investigating The Abuse Of Children.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Hs 1 For Hb 371 - Necessary Rules Are Suspended In Senate on 06/28/2012
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Charter Schools. [HB-380]
This bill revises the Delaware Charter School law to require that all charter school applications be submitted to local school boards for review and consideration. The bill requires local school boards to conduct a face-to-face meeting with the charter school applicant to review and discuss the application. The bill requires a local school board denying a charter school application to state its reasons in writing, including an impact statement regarding the projected effect of the charter school upon the enrollment, programs and financial operation
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HB-380: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Charter Schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Outten
Assigned To Education Committee In House on 06/07/2012