An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Community-based Attendant Services. [HB-110]
The Department of Health & Social Services has administered a highly successful attendant services program since enactment of enabling legislation in 2001. This bill is the product of a committee comprised of representatives of the Department, the State Council for Persons with Disabilities, and non-profit agencies which reached consensus on recommended revisions to the 14 year old law. The bill: 1) reorganizes covered services under a single eligibility category; 2) encourages providers to promote participant self-direction of services; 3) expands
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HB-110: An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Community-based Attendant Services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis
Signed By Governor on 06/30/2015
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Creation Of A Unit For Low-income Students. [HB-117]
This Act will create a funding source for students enrolled in Delaware public schools who are determined as low-income according to the Department of Education. This funding source will be in addition to the normal enrollment based funding provided to school districts and charter schools. The low-income unit will provide one unit of funding for every 250 low-income students in grades K-12 where the funding can be used for such purposes as providing additional teachers and paraprofessionals for classroom instruction; additional counselors, school
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HB-117: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Creation Of A Unit For Low-income Students.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Amendment Ha 2 - Introduced And Placed With Bill on 06/23/2016
An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To School Nurses. [HB-12]
This bill seeks to ensure that every public school in the State of Delaware has a nurse. This bill provides a mechanism to allow public schools that currently do not have a school nurse to receive state funds. The bill also allows for a match tax to assist those school districts that acquire a nurse as a result of this bill to pay for the local share of that nurse.
HB-12: An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To School Nurses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Harvey Kenton
Assigned To Appropriations Committee In House on 03/24/2015
An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Cosmetology, Barbering, And Licensure Of Aestheticians. [HB-123]
This bill revises the statutory provisions relating to reciprocity requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, and aestheticians. Currently an applicant from a state with licensure standards less stringent than those of Delaware must show 5 continuous years of practice in the other state immediately preceding application to Delaware, in order to receive a Delaware license under reciprocity provisions. Under this revision, the applicant is required to show work in the other jurisdiction for 3 out of the last 5 years. This will offer more flexibility
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HB-123: An Act To Amend Title 24 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Cosmetology, Barbering, And Licensure Of Aestheticians.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ronald Gray
Signed By Governor on 07/28/2015
An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Family Leave For Public Employees And Officers. [HB-125]
This legislation requires that all full-time employees of the State, continuously in the employ of the state for at least one year, shall be eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave upon the birth or adoption of a child 6 years of age or younger. Both parents would be eligible for such leave. Employees shall continue to have the right, as they do under current law, to use accrued sick leave for maternity and paternity purposes. This legislation leaves intact the rights of persons adopting a child over 6 years of age to take unpaid leave. Due to lack
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HB-125: An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Family Leave For Public Employees And Officers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Stricken on 06/03/2015
An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Snow Removal. [HB-129]
Currently, communities in the program only get reimbursed for snow events equal to or greater than 4 inches. This bill allows communities in the snow reimbursement program with the Delaware Department of Transportation that have schools within their development to seek reimbursement for the plowing costs of the feeder street leading to the school for snow events equal to or greater than 2 and less than 4 inches. The same conditions for snowstorm reimbursement apply to reimbursement under this bill.
HB-129: An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Snow Removal.
Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell
Signed By Governor on 05/19/2016