This concurrent resolution recognizes the month of May 2019 as "Healthy Vision Month" in the State of Delaware.
This act designates rescue dogs as the official state dog.
This bill updates the members of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Advisory Committee to include additional stakeholders, and directs the Committee to report to the General Assembly on the effectiveness of the Act, ways to improve the Act, and other measures that should be taken by the State of Delaware to prevent lead poisoning in children.
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.
Under this Act, notice for a mediation conference must be made by registered or certified mail, with restricted delivery and return receipt requested, for any of the following Title 13, Family Court matters: (1) Child support. (2) Custody or visitation. (3) Guardianship. (4) Third-party visitation. This Act also provides that: - It is the party’s duty to provide the Court with the party’s mailing address. - Notice by registered or certified mail is not required if a party has provided a written waiver. - The Court may excuse the registered or certified mail requirement in whole or in part if the number of parties in a case is voluminous and the address of record for each party has been confirmed in writing, either by other service or written notice provided by the party. - Notice provided under this Act constitutes conclusive evidence of service and mediation may proceed with or without the party’s appearance.
This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for patients. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This Act exempts veterans with 100% service-connected, permanent and total disability from paying State income taxes.
This Bill requires all statewide and other candidates that may appear on the general election ballot to disclose whether or not all their State and Federal personal income tax returns are filed and any tax due has been paid and whether or not all their real property taxes have been paid.
This concurrent resolution establishes the Non-Acute Patient Medical Guardianship Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations regarding the needs and options of non-acute hospital patients in need of medical guardianship services. A recent study concluding in 2017 found that hospital patients who did not have acute medical needs were often abandoned in hospitals. These patients often lack financial means to pay for a guardian to make medical decisions. The Office of Public Guardian does not have sufficient resources to intervene to make timely medical decisions for such non-acute patients. In addition to harming these non-acute patients with prolonged hospital stays, patients with acute medical needs are not timely and adequately served because hospital beds are occupied by such non-acute patients. This concurrent resolution establishes a task force to study and make recommendations on these issues.
This Resolution recognizes April 2019 as "Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
