This act creates a special license plate for veterans of Operation Desert Storm.
This Joint Resolution opposes the cost allocation of the Artificial Island Transmission Project as unfair and unduly burdensome to the ratepayers of Delaware and urges PJM to join with Delaware in contesting the cost allocation in the proceedings pending before FERC.
An individual's housing status should not be a basis for discrimination. This bill establishes a "Homeless Individual's Bill of Rights" that provides rights to protections for individuals experiencing homelessness, including protections from discrimination while in public and while seeking access to housing, employment, and temporary shelter. This bill vests important investigatory and enforcement authority with the State's Division of Human Relations and the State Human Relations Commission, similar to their roles with Delaware's Equal Accommodations Law and Delaware's Fair Housing Act.
This Act seeks to ensure that every public school in the State has a school nurse. This Act provides a mechanism to allow a district or a charter school that currently does not have a school nurse to receive state funds. This Act also permits a district to levy a tax under § 1902(b), Title 14, known as a “match tax”, to assist those districts that hire a school nurse as a result of this Act to pay for the local share of that school nurse.
This Act is a companion to Senate Bill No. 34. Senate Bill No. 34, in pertinent part, eliminates several aggravating factors under Delaware's controlled substances laws. This Act retains and codifies one of those aggravating factors, § 4751A(1)e.2. of Title 16, as a separate crime.
This Act addresses issues identified following the enactment of the Ned Carpenter Act, 78 Del. Laws, ch. 13, in 2011. Specifically, Sections 1 through 14 of this Act do the following: (1) Simplify Delaware’s controlled substance laws by reducing the number of weight Tiers that are used to categorize the severity of controlled substance offenses. (2) Eliminate aggravating factors, some of which may cause Delaware’s controlled substance laws to be applied unfairly, while maintaining enhanced sentencing for those who violate Delaware’s controlled substance laws within a protected school zone. (3) Provide enhanced minimum mandatory sentences for those who repeatedly commit the highest level drug dealing offenses. (4) Provide statutory guidance for the weighing and sampling procedures used at criminal trials for controlled substances. Sections 15 through 20 of this Act make conforming amendments to the Delaware Code based on changes made by Sections 1 through 14 of this Act. This Act takes effect 90 days after its enactment into law. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the guidelines of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. A companion Act, Senate Bill No. 33, codifies one of the aggravating factors eliminated by this Act, § 4751A(1)e.2. of Title 16, as a separate crime.
This bill adds the Department of Correction, Bureau of Prisons and Bureau of Community Corrections' vehicles to the list of "authorized emergency vehicles" identified in Chapter 41 of Title 21 that are afforded certain privileges when responding to an emergency.
This Act amends the Fiscal Year 2017 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to 1) authorize the expenditure of prior year Community Redevelopment Funds for public safety purposes in the City of Wilmington; 2) clarify the applicability of prevailing wage provisions on Community Transportation Fund and Municipal Street Aid projects; 3) authorize the Department of Transportation to use Community Transportation Funds for one-time reimbursements for various projects 4) allow for the use of certain operating funds of local school districts as a match for school construction; 5) allow Cape Henlopen to transfer certain unobligated major capital improvement funds for the Sussex Consortium Building project; and 6) to authorize the Office of Management and Budget to execute loand collateral-related documents related to the New Castle County Courthouse parking facility
This joint resolution rejects the report of the Delaware Compensation Commission in its entirety.
This Senate Concurrent Resolution continues the Motorcycle Rider Education Advisory Committee, which must meet at least quarterly to monitor the Motorcycle Rider Education Program, and assess the future needs of and recommend improvements to the Program.
