Sen. Stephanie Hansen

This Act is the final leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General Assembly shall enact general laws providing the circumstances, rules, and procedures for absentee voting.

This Act requires that a loan to a political committee be documented by a written record reported to the State Election Commissioner that includes all of the following: (1) The lender’s name, address, and signature. (2) A statement of the schedule for repayment of the loan. (3) A statement of the interest rate of the loan. However, if the loan is made by a candidate to the candidate’s candidate committee, a statement of the schedule for repayment and interest rate of the loan is not required. The proceeds of the loan are required to be deposited in the political committee’s account at a financial institution within 3 business days of receipt of the proceeds. The proceeds of the loan must not be held in a candidate’s personal account at a financial institution or in the account of another person. The proceeds must be held in the political committee’s account until an expenditure is made or until the next reporting period. This Act increases the minimum amount of a debt or the proceeds of a political committee that must be reported to the Commissioner. This Act also requires a political committee to designate with the State Election Commissioner a financial institution with a main office or branch office in this State which is the depository for contributions to the political committee. The political committee is required to provide copies of the most recent month-end account statement and an account statement for the month in which a loan was initiated, if applicable, to cover each period a report of contributions and expenditures is due. Finally, this Act makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

This Act allows the Drug Overdose Fatality Review Commission ("Commission") to review all deaths related to a drug overdose, regardless of the type of drug implicated in the overdose death. This change will allow the Commission to obtain and review all medical records, including substance abuse and mental health records, when there is a death related to a drug overdose. This approach will allow the Commission to monitor the evolving nature of societal drug use over time and make recommendations that are proactive in reducing the harm from emerging trends. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for epinephrine autoinjectors for individuals who are 18 years of age or under and must include at least 1 formulation of epinephrine autoinjectors on the lowest tier of the drug formulary developed and maintained by the carrier if the insurance plan has tiers.

This Concurrent Resolution acknowledges June 2021 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the State of Delaware.

This Act adds the term “adjudication” to this section of the criminal code to enable juvenile defendants to petition the court for their adjudications of delinquency to be vacated and their juvenile criminal record to be expunged in regard to crimes, other than defined violent felonies, committed as a direct result of being victims of human trafficking.

This act will allow a critical need reimbursement to be distributed directly to an institute of higher education or Secretary of Education approved Alternative Routes to Teacher Licensure and Certification program for an eligible teacher who is taking noncredit-earning seminars or workshops or credit-bearing coursework in order to attain a Standard Certification in a state-approved critical need area.

This bill increases the membership of the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council to 24 members by adding representatives from the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Criminal Justice Council, the Department of Transportation, and the Division of Professional Regulation, a person who has been a victim of human trafficking, and a person who has prior experience working with victims of human trafficking in a legal or advocacy capacity. This bill also changes the quorum for the Council from 7 members to 13.

This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for adult patients. This Act does not require the Department of Health and Social Services to promulgate new regulations before implementing this Act because § 10113 of Title 29 exempts amendments to existing regulations to make them consistent with changes in basic law from the process otherwise required under Chapter 101 of Title 29. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

This Resolution commends the work of the New Castle County Police Department Behavioral Health Unit and urges law enforcement agencies throughout the State to adopt a similar unit.