Sen. John Walsh

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District SD-009
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 59

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State (Delaware)
Delaware 151st General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Special Education Funding. [HB-86]
This Act provides increased funding for kindergarten through third grade students identified as eligible for basic special education services. Currently, basic special education is provided for students in fourth through twelfth grade who are identified as eligible for basic special education and related services; there is no additional unit funding for students in kindergarten through third grade who may be eligible for basic special education services. The Act adds a designation of K-3 Basic Special Education (basic) and over three years reduces (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 07/30/2021

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Delaware 151st General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Minimum Wage. [HB-88]
This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 09/30/2021

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Delaware 151st General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council. [HB-87]
This bill increases the membership of the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council to 24 members by adding representatives from the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Criminal Justice Council, the Department of Transportation, and the Division of Professional Regulation, a person who has been a victim of human trafficking, and a person who has prior experience working with victims of human trafficking in a legal or advocacy capacity. This bill also changes the quorum for the Council from 7 members to 13.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis Signed By Governor on 06/15/2021

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Delaware 151st General Assembly

Recognizing March 4, 2021 As "delaware Giving Day." [SCR-7]
This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates March 4, 2021 as "Delaware Giving Day."

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Suspension Of Rules In House on 01/28/2021

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An Act To Amend The Delaware Code Relating To Educational Opportunity Funding. [SB-56]
This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is to be distributed to school districts and charter schools.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 06/30/2021

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An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Minimum Wage For Employees Receiving Tips Or Gratuities. [HB-94]
The minimum wage for employees who receive tips or gratuities has not changed since 1983, when the overall state minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. Tipped wage workers at that time were paid a percentage 66.67% of the minimum wage, which was $2.23 per hour. In 1989, the General Assembly changed the hourly wage to a flat $2.23 per hour, where it has remained since. Had the calculation been left unchanged, the tipped wage would have increased along with the minimum wage. Therefore, this bill ensures that employees who receive tips or gratuities also (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Substituted In House By Hs 1 For Hb 94 on 06/30/2021

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An Act To Amend Title 18, Title 29, And Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Insurance Coverage Of Epinephrine Autoinjectors. [HB-95]
This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for epinephrine autoinjectors for individuals who are 18 years of age or under and must include at least 1 formulation of epinephrine autoinjectors on the lowest tier of the drug formulary developed and maintained by the carrier if the insurance plan has tiers.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 06/15/2021

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An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Prohibited Trade Practices. [HB-91]
This Act amends Delawares Consumer Fraud Act (Subchapter II, Chapter 25, Title 6 of the Code), to give Delaware consumers and businesses the protection against unfair acts or practices in commerce that the General Assembly intended to give them when it enacted the Consumer Fraud Act.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 07/23/2021

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An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Free Public Schools. [HB-100]
This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Additionally a unit ratio of 700 full time equivalent students for grades K-5 for employment of a full-time school psychologist. This Act defines mental health services as prevention, response, and coordination services delivered to students in elementary schools.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Bentz Signed By Governor on 08/19/2021

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An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Consumer Contracts. [HB-96]
House Bill No. 96 prohibits multiple service charges for residential trash collection service except if the charge is for any of the following:

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David Lawson Reported Out Of Committee (banking, Business & Insurance) In Senate With 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable on 03/23/2022

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