This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims Saturday, October 28, 2023, as “National First Responders Day” in the State of Delaware.
This Concurrent Resolution recognizes June 15, 2023, as "Delaware Elder Abuse Awareness Day" and encourages all of Delaware's citizens to learn about how to protect and nurture our elderly citizens.
The General Assembly previously restricted municipal, town, and city police departments from operating speed enforcement equipment outside of its corporate limits. This Act completely restricts the ability of municipal, town, and city police departments to make arrests for speeding that occurs outside of the municipality, town, or city’s corporate limits. This Act also defines “corporate limits” for the purposes of 21 Del. C. § 701. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article IX, § 1 of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly to enact or amend general incorporation laws and special acts of incorporation, including municipal charters. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This bill provides that public sales of real estate may occur via an online auction process.
This Act requires police officers to enter private property to enforce custody orders when a court order requires them to do so.
This Act requires that parents and other persons under investigation for child abuse and neglect be given written and oral notice of the allegations made against them; the right to consult counsel prior to speaking with a DSCYF investigator; the right to refuse entry to the DSCYF investigator; the right to withhold consent to medical examinations of the children; the right to refuse to submit to a drug test; and the right to consult legal counsel prior to signing a safety plan.
This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and inalienable right for all Delawareans to a clean and healthy environment. The Amendment would also declare the State, including all of its branches, agencies, and political subdivisions, as trustee of the State's natural resources. By enacting this amendment Delaware would join other States which have or are seeking similar provisions, in their respective Constitutions, creating the same inherent and inalienable rights for their citizens.
This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the young men participating in the 2023 session of Delaware’s Boys State and commends its sponsor, the American Legion Department of Delaware.
This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes September 2023 as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
This Act does all of the following regarding suspected human trafficking of children: 1. Ensures the sharing of information between the Child Protection Accountability Commission (CPAC) and the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council. 2. Expressly requires a multidisciplinary response to these cases, similar to child deaths and serious physical injury. 3. Even though human trafficking of children is child abuse, specifically delineates it throughout the child abuse multidisciplinary investigative response. 4. Codifies a review panel and oversight committee within CPAC for these cases, with the same authority, subpoena power, and immunities provided to the system that reviews child abuse deaths and near deaths. 5. Establishes that the Office of the Child Advocate will staff the review panel and oversight committee. This Act also makes minor technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
