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passed both · Delaware · House May 16, 2019

HCR 43: ENCOURAGING STATE OF DELAWARE EMPLOYEES TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH CARE DURING OPEN ENROLLMENT AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

This resolution encourages State of Delaware employees to make informed decisions about their health care during Open Enrollment and throughout the year as an important step to help control rising health care costs and to maintain high quality, affordable benefit options now and in the future.
Catherine Cloutier (R) Lyndon Yearick (R)
passed both · Delaware · House May 16, 2019

HCR 39: DESIGNATING MAY 8, 2019, AS “EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVOCACY DAY” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

This concurrent resolution proclaims May 8, 2019, as “Early Childhood Advocacy Day” to affirm the importance of quality early learning for every citizen and every sector of our State, to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year, and to rededicate ourselves to our shared responsibility for the construction and support of a Delaware early childhood system that will positively impact children, families, communities, and workforce and economic development across the State.
Quinton Johnson (D) Stephanie Hansen (D)
in committee · Delaware · House May 16, 2019

HB 165: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EXTREME CRIMES PROTECTION ACT.

This act will be known as the Extreme Crimes Protection Act. This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United State Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida, and by the Delaware Supreme Court in Rauf v. State. In accord with those cases, this Act will require that before a death sentence can be imposed, a jury (unless the Defendant waives their right to one) must first determine unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt: that at least 1 statutory aggravating circumstance exists; which (if any) statutory and non-statutory aggravating circumstances alleged by the State exist; and whether all of the aggravating circumstances found to exist outweigh all of the mitigating circumstances found to exist. This Act also revises Delaware's death penalty statute to comply with the United State Supreme Court's holding in Hall v. Florida, interpreting standards set forth in Atkins v. Virginia. This Act adopts the term "intellectual disability" used by the United State Supreme Court. This Act recognizes developing trends in death penalty jurisprudence and the American Bar Association's Resolution 122A (2006), of August 8, 2006, by prohibiting the imposition of the death penalty upon a person who has been found "guilty, but mentally ill", as defined by Title 11 § 401. This Act also narrows the scope of the most commonly used statutory aggravating circumstances - those applicable in cases involving defendants with previous convictions for violent felonies and murders committed during the commission of other enumerated felonies. Several other statutory aggravating circumstances have been combined to eliminate duplication, eliminated entirely, or otherwise clarified.
Bill Carson (D) Dave Lawson (R) Brian Pettyjohn (R) Stephen Smyk (R) Bruce C. Ennis (D) · 6 co-sponsors
signed · Delaware · Senate May 16, 2019

SB 50: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.

Delaware's statewide community college system, operated by Delaware Technical and Community College (“the College”), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development, vocational training, and transfer education that connects Delawareans with good paying jobs within the State and region. This Act gives the College’s Board of Trustees the authority to issue bonds to finance the cost of major and minor capital improvements, deferred maintenance, and the acquisition of related equipment and educational technology and establishes the Community College Infrastructure Fund (“the Fund”) to pay the principal and interest on such bonds. Any promissory notes or bonds must be approved separately prior to issuance by the General Assembly in a bond and capital improvement act. This Act is a substitute for and differs from Senate Bill No. 50 by deleting the property tax component and instead provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate at least $10 million for deferred maintenance for the next 5 years to be deposited to the Fund together with such other funds as may be deposited by the College from sources including, but not limited to, tuition and fees, private funds, non-state grants and federal support. This Act also provides a mechanism, but not an obligation, for the state to provide matching funds for minor capital improvement projects consistent with existing matching provisions for public education. This Act also makes technical corrections.
Ed Osienski (D) Harris B. McDowell (D) · 11 co-sponsors
in committee · Delaware · House May 15, 2019

HB 160: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF LOBBYIST IDENTIFICATION BADGES.

Currently, identification badges for lobbyists are issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles without direct coordination with the Public Integrity Commission. This legislation places the responsibility for issuing lobbyist badges within the purview of the state agency that is charged with regulating lobbying and lobbyists.
Ernesto B. Lopez (R) Kendra Johnson (D) Tizzy Lockman (D) Jeff Spiegelman (R)
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