This resolution proclaims June 19, 2018 as Juneteenth Independence Day in Delaware and encourages the people of Delaware to reflect upon the significant roles and many contributions of African Americans and to celebrate this day with appropriate activities and events.
This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. This Act further prohibits the dissemination of natural resource data to any person or entity without first disclosing the date and method of collection along with obtaining the written consent of the respective property owner. In the event written consent cannot be obtained during a two year period following the effective date of this Act, the Department must expunge, without the distribution or transmission to any other person or entity any natural resource data.
This Concurrent Resolution honors the Army Warrant Officer Corps for their 100th anniversary on July 9, 2018.
This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment reflecting the recommendations of the Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) on Potential Fiscal Controls and Budget Smoothing Mechanisms established as per House Joint Resolution 8 of the 149th General Assembly (Panel). This Act would build upon the State’s existing appropriation limit methodology by moving the Budget Reserve Account into a newly defined Budget Stabilization Fund, defining rules for deposits to and withdrawals from said Budget Stabilization Fund, and adding a check of the appropriation limit against an index comprised of relevant indicators of growth of the State’s economy. The Panel further recommended that any final adoption of the structural budget reforms included in this Act be accompanied by statutory enactment of structural reforms to the Personal Income Tax by broadening the tax base as initially recommended by the DEFAC Advisory Council of Revenues report dated May 2015 and further detailed in the Panel’s report dated June 1, 2018.
This Act removes language from the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program statute that unreasonably prevents law enforcement officials from accessing the PMP database when officials can show that the information on the database is relevant to an investigation or prosecution. This Act leaves intact the statutory right and responsibility of the Office of Controlled Substances to maintain the privacy of patients and patient information except under circumstances enumerated in the Delaware Code.
This bill moves all police officers and firefighters employed by the State and its political subdivisions under the jurisdiction of the Police Officers’ and Firefighters’ Employment Relations Act. This bill allows all State merit employees to have full collective bargaining rights and protections under the jurisdiction of the Public Employment Relation Board. The purpose of this bill is to unify all police and firefighters employed by the State under the single statute which was created specifically for law enforcement personnel.
This legislation creates a benchmark for determining when a treatment or service is no longer experimental or investigational. When Medicare determines that a treatment is safe for its population, commercial insurers in Delaware may no longer deny coverage on that basis. This bill will remove inconsistencies for properly-evidenced treatments between payers.
This act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that protects parental rights.
This non-punitive, public-health oriented bill seeks to codify certain sections of the federal law known as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as amended by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), that requires states to have policies and procedures in place to address the needs of infants born with and identified as being affected by substance abuse, withdrawal symptoms, or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, including a requirement that healthcare providers involved in the delivery or care of such infant notify the child protection services system. This bill formalizes a uniform, collaborative response protocol for the development of a Plan of Safe Care for infants with prenatal substance exposure and their affected family or caregivers.
Section 7042 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code lists the completion and cost of any capital improvements or rehabilitation work in a manufactured home community, as distinguished from ordinary repair, replacement, and maintenance, as a factor that may justify an increase in rent but only until the cost of the improvement has been fully recovered. Like Senate Substitute No. 2 for SB 23, this Act clarifies this provision by making the recovery of such capital improvement or rehabilitation work a fee under § 7008, the fee section of this chapter, so that it is a separate charge from rent and provides notice requirements regarding the fee. This Act provides a revised definition of capital improvement and rehabilitation work. This definition is placed in the definitions section of Chapter 70. Chapter 70 defines rent as including fees, preserving a community owner’s ability to enforce payment of the fee. By identifying this assessment as a fee, it is clearly identified as separate from a base rent increase. Senate Substitute No. 3 for Senate Bill No. 23 differs from Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 22 as follows: 1. It removes lines from the definition of capital improvement or rehabilitation work that conflict with the rest of the definition. 2. It adds the requirement that capital improvement or rehabilitation work must benefit the entire manufactured home community. 3. It limits the correction of deficiencies to comply with changes to building codes or laws enacted after construction was completed. 4. It clarifies that the community owner must still comply with other provisions of the rent justification law, § 7042(a)(1) and § 7043 of Title 25, before imposing this fee. 5. Permits a challenge to the fee to be consolidated with other proceedings challenging a rent increase under § 7042 and § 7043 of Title 25. 6. It adds that the fee must be collected at a rate of 10% of the cost of the capital improvement or rehabilitation work or over the number of years necessary to not exceed 10% of the rent, whichever amount is lower. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
