This resolution recognizes June 6, 2018 as the 74th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied Troops landed at Normandy during World War II.
This Act amends Section 3-304 of the City of Wilmington’s Home Rule Charter to allow the City of Wilmington to determine whether and to what extent its employees are required to be City residents. This Act does not affect residency requirements that exist elsewhere in the City of Wilmington’s Home Rule Charter, such as the residency requirement for City Council members under Section 2-103. This Act is subject to the requirements of § 841 of Title 22, prohibiting a residency requirement for an individual employed by the City for 5 years or more.
This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by: • Defining a “substantial quantity” of litter as being more than an amount contained in a standard garbage can. • Providing enhanced penalties for the unlawful dumping of a substantial quantity of litter. • Creating the Litter Investigation and Enforcement Fund, funded through restitution paid by offenders of this chapter, to support investigations to identify those who violate this chapter. This Act clarifies that a public authority or agency is not required to provide litter receptacles in a park or recreation area that is designated as a carry-in and carry-out facility. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
Section 1 of this Act allows those licensed as importers to pay tax upon the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers, instead of the tax being due when the alcoholic beverages come to rest in the State of Delaware. Section 2 of this Act provides that if any of the provisions are found to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions will stand. Section 3 of this Act provides that the legislation will be effective as of August 1, 2018.
This Act revises the data collection procedures and authority of the Workers’ Compensation Oversight Panel (“Panel”) to ensure that the Panel is able to obtain the data necessary to perform its statutory duties, without infringing upon the authority of the Department of Insurance to regulate the insurance industry. This Act also protects the confidentiality of data acquired by the Panel from the Department of Insurance or the Department of Labor. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This Act reaffirms the Constitutional requirement that the General Assembly appropriate money belonging to the General Fund by making clear that funds received by the State or a State agency from settlements or other final orders or judgments, other than those funds awarded specifically to a party or consumer or as attorneys' fees, or explicitly directed otherwise by law, are to be deposited to the General Fund and may not be transferred or expended until the funds are appropriated by the General Assembly.
This act makes various edits to the existing Medical Marijuana Act, including, but not limited to: • Adding requirements for registration of a compassion center, including information about any labor peace agreement with a bona fide labor organization assuring an uninterrupted supply of medicine, and to disclose any record of previous violations, investigations, citations, administrative proceedings, or lawsuits related to any laws or regulations relating to employment, workplace safety, wages and compensation, discrimination, any other worker protections, tax, or any other relevant laws and regulation by any business owned or operated by the applicant, principal, or managerial employees. • Expands the authority of the Department to include evaluation of compassion center registration certificate renewals. • Expands considerations by the Department for an applicant of a compassion center to include the centers plan to maintain pesticide free medical marijuana, the center's employment standards, and evidence that they have no history of disciplinary action and/or investigations. • Includes in the criteria for compassion center and safety compliance facilities renewals to submit any history of disciplinary action and/or investigations. • Removes the requirement for volunteers of compassion center, or registered safety compliance facilities to undergo background checks every 5 years. • Requires a compassion center or a registered safety compliance facility to report any legal proceedings, judgments, or government investigations against them, or its owners, principals or managerial employees and to provide sufficient compensation to support the worker’s family, health and welfare, and cost of living.
In light of the Delaware Supreme Court’s decisions in Schadt v. Latchford and Lemos v. Willis, this Act amends the City of Wilmington’s Home Rule Charter to authorize Wilmington City Council to determine the following: (1) Whether and to what extent the duty to design, construct, repair, and maintain City alleys, footways, and sidewalks may be delegated to responsible parties. (2) Whether and to what extent responsible parties have the duty to remove and dispose of snow or ice from city sidewalks.
This Bill amends the Administrative Procedures Act extending and shortening certain time periods for parties to act and limits emergency regulations to situations affecting public health or safety. If an agency is found to have unlawfully adopted regulations, the agency shall be responsible for the complainant's reasonable fees and costs incurred in bringing such action. This Bill also specifies speaker-time allocation and what the agency is to do if more time is needed for parties to speak at public hearings. The purpose of the Bill is to simplify and expedite legal processes to review, stay, and adjudicate regulatory actions.
This Act authorizes the Department of Transportation to use automated speed enforcement (ASE) systems to enforce speed restrictions within work zones on highways. The purpose of this Act is to increase safety for construction and maintenance workers on highways.
