Rep. Charles Potter

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District HD-001
Party Democrat
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State (Delaware)
Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Habitual Offenders. [HB-128]
This bill modernizes the language of the statute to conform to the current practice of the Court.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Simpson Signed By Governor on 07/16/2013

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Regulation Of Manufacture, Distribution And Dispensing Of Controlled Substances. [HB-130]
State and federal laws limit the amount of nonprescription pseudoephedrine (“PSE”) consumers can buy to prevent diversion for production of methamphetamine. States, however, need an effective way to enforce those limits statewide and across state borders to curb the practice of “smurfing,” whereby criminals make purchases at multiple stores to acquire illegal quantifies of PSE. The solution is a multi-state PSE sales blocking system: the National Precursor Log Exchange system (NPLEx) which the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis Signed By Governor on 08/27/2013

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 30 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Taxes On Tobacco Products. [HB-138]
This youth tobacco prevention bill eliminates the taxing disparity between moist snuff and “other tobacco products,” not including cigarettes. It also raises the tax rate from 15% to 30% of the wholesale price, and designates tax revenue over $3.5 million to The Delaware Health Fund. This bill does not affect taxes on cigarettes. This bill attempts to make moist snuff and other tobacco products less attractive to minors by making them more expensive, as well as designating a new funding source for The Delaware Health Fund, which promotes preventive (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Margaret Henry Introduced And Assigned To Revenue & Finance Committee In House on 05/14/2013

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To State Procurement. [HB-139]
The Business Enterprise Program (BEP) of the Division of Health and Social Services, Division of the Visually Impaired, broadens economic opportunities for blind residents of Delaware by creating snack bars, cafeterias, and vending route facilities on federal, State and municipal properties. Under federal law (20 U.S.C. 107) and state law (16 Del. C. 9606), BEP is granted priority to operate vending facilities on federal and State property. The amendment allows licensed participants in BEP to purchase materials and nonprofessional services under (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis Signed By Governor on 05/08/2014

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Penalties For Offenses Committed Within The Jurisdiction Of The City Of Wilmington. [HB-146]
This Act requires persons convicted of criminal offenses committed within the jurisdiction of the City of Wilmington to pay a $25.00 penalty to offset the costs incurred by the City to investigate, arrest and participate in the prosecution of such offenses in State court. Traffic offenses committed within the jurisdiction of the City of Wilmington are not subject to the penalty. Given the City of Wilmington’s high crime rate, this penalty will help to offset the high price of policing and investigation in the City.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Margaret Henry Assigned To Finance Committee In Senate on 06/12/2013

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Retirement Plans. [HB-148]
This bill would direct the Office of the State Treasurer to add a Roth option to state sponsored 403(b) and 457(b) savings plans that are offered to eligible teachers and state employees. This bill would not require the state to contribute any additional funds into the retirement plans. The Roth option has been proven to be a more tax-friendly way to save for most individual investors than the traditional, non-Roth, tax-deferred method of saving that is currently offered in state sponsored retirement plans. The change is a simple administrative (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Colin Bonini Signed By Governor on 07/30/2014

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Titles 19 And 29 Of The Delaware Code With Regard To Employment Practices. [HB-167]
This bill would prohibit a public employer from inquiring into or considering the criminal record, criminal history or credit history or score of an applicant before it makes a conditional offer to the applicant. It would permit inquiry and consideration of criminal background after the conditional offer has been made. The bill specifies that once a background check is conducted an employer shall only consider felonies for 10 years from the completion of sentence, and misdemeanors for 5 years from the completion of sentence. Further, employers are (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harris McDowell Signed By Governor on 05/08/2014

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 15 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Absentee Voting. [HB-191]
This bill expands the business or occupation category of permissible absentee voters to include those who are unable to appear at the polling place “because of the nature of such person’s business occupation, including the business or occupation of providing care to his or her parent, spouse, or child who may require care due to illness, disability, or injury, or may require such person to travel or work such hours which might preclude them from appearing at their regular polling location. The bill also eliminates the requirement to have any affidavit (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Melanie Smith Reported Out Of Committee (house Administration) In House With 3 On Its Merits on 04/09/2014

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Bonds And Notes Of The State. [HB-195]
This bill institutes a graduated schedule for Delaware General Obligation Bonds using a as a basis the interest rate announced by Municipal Market Data on March 31 of the year prior to the fiscal year in which the borrowing is undertaken. This graduated schedule modernizes the borrowing limit calculation for general obligation bonds to reflect interest rates. This also lowers the total debt service authorized from 15% to 12.5%.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ronald Gray Assigned To Appropriations Committee In House on 04/03/2014

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Delaware 147th General Assembly

An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. [HB-21]
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 (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bruce Ennis Signed By Governor on 09/06/2013

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