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153rd General Assembly
Follow the Delaware Healthcare Association’s legislative tracker for Delaware General Assembly issues.
Table Key:
Green - Approved/ Signed
Yellow - Pending
Blue - Pass
| Bill Name | Bill Status | Description | DHA Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate Bill 1 | Out of Senate Committee | Primary Care Bill | Oppose |
| SS 2 for Senate Bill 1 | House Committee | Primary Care Bill (Substitute) | Support |
| House Bill 3 | Signed into law | Creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the Department of Correction to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody | Support |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 5 | Out of House Committee | First leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom. | |
| Senate Bill 12 | Signed into law | This legislation is the Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2025 | Support |
| Senate Bill 13 | Out of Senate Committee | Updates Delaware hospital's financial assistance and charity care policies to standardize the process across systems. | Support |
| House Bill 17 | Signed into law | Repeals the requirement for a certificate of public review prior to the acquisition of major medical equipment. | Support |
| House Bill 21 | Signed into law | Bans the sale of Tianeptine (gas station heroin) in the state by identifying it as a Schedule 1 controlled substance | Support |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 21 | Signed into law | Makes important updates to Delaware’s General Corporation Law. | Support |
| Senate Bill 22 | Out of House Committee | Updates mental health and substance use disorder insurance coverage in the state. | Support |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 23 | Out of Senate Committee | Addresses housing supply and affordability. | Support |
| Senate Bill 26 | Ready for Governor's Action | Allows an employee who is subject to a labor dispute, other than a lockout, to collect unemployment benefits after a 2-week waiting period. | |
| Senate Bill 27 | House Committee | Establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally | |
| House Bill 36 | Signed into law | Aligns the narrower non-discrimination laws with the applicable broad non-discrimination law by also prohibiting discrimination on any other basis protected under the applicable broad law. | |
| SS 2 for Senate Bill 41 | Senate Committee | Bans the manufacture, sale, delivery, distribution, holding with the intent to sell, and offering for sale in Delaware of food that contains Red dye 3 (CAS no. 16424-68-0) | |
| House Bill 42 | Signed into law | Relates to the multi-disciplinary response and oversight of human trafficking cases involving children. | Support |
| Senate Bill 45 | Out of Senate Committee | Adds a new crime of application insurance fraud under the criminal code to include fraudulent statements submitted in support of an application to obtain or renew insurance or for purposes of obtaining a commission or payment from an insurer. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 46 | House Committee | Relates to parental notification for abortion services. | |
| HS 2 for House Bill 48 | Signed into law | Adds provisions to Title 21 to better regulate, define, and enforce accessible parking spaces in Delaware. | |
| House Bill 53 | Signed into law | Broadens the scope of a special fund administered by the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing that provides telecommunications assistance. | Support |
| House Bill 54 | Signed into law | Establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention within the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH) | Support |
| Senate Bill 55 | Senate Committee | Prohibits gender transition surgery for children and disciplines healthcare providers that provide or refer a child for care. | Opposed |
| House Bill 56 | Signed into law | Requires health insurance plans (state and private) cover medically necessary removal of excess skin and subcutaneous tissue, including panniculectomies. | Support |
| House Bill 58 | Out of House Committee | Related to detention and arrest based on citizenship and immigration status. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 67 | Signed into law | Codifies that a criminal history report obtained by a home-care agency, hospice agency, or personal assistance services agency through the BCC’s criminal screening process is valid for three years from the date of the applicant’s fingerprinting. | Support |
| Senate Bill 69 | Signed into law | Prohibits a school district or charter school from selling or serving breakfast, lunch or competitive food on campus. during the school day that contains the color additive Red dye 40. | |
| House Bill 70 | Signed into law | Requires that all rental units constructed before January 1, 1978 are certified as lead free or lead safe by a specific deadline. | |
| Senate Bill 70 | Signed into law | Allows licensed genetic counselors to order genetic tests. | Support |
| Senate Bill 71 | Signed into law | Creates a special open enrollment period for persons who are already enrolled in a Medicare supplement policy or certificate to cancel and purchase a new plan. | |
| Senate Bill 72 | Signed into law | Requires DPH to create a website where Delaware residents can find out the level of PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” in their public drinking water systems. Also requires DPH to notify public water utilities if the PFAS in their water exceeds certain limit. | |
| House Bill 75 | Out of Senate Committee | Addressing child sexual abuse civil claims. | Comments |
| Senate Bill 77 | Stricken | Prohibits the sale of electronic smoking devices and nicotine vapor products that are not included in a directory of manufacturers and products eligible to be sold in the state. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 84 | Senate Committee | Unlawful for an employer to discharge (or not pay) an employee or take adverse action (or threaten to) should an employee decline to participate in a meeting where the employer is communicating its opinion on a religious or political matter. | Comments |
| House Bill 87 | Signed into law | Expands membership to the Delaware Suicide Prevention Coalition. | Support |
| Senate Bill 87 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires local governments to permit Accessory dwelling units (in-law units or garage apartments) to increase Delaware’s housing supply. | Support |
| HS 1 for House Bill 91 | Signed into law | Further expands free breakfasts in schools participating in the federal School Breakfast Program by making them available to all students, regardless of household income, but does not expand free lunch income eligibility. | |
| Senate Bill 92 | Signed into law | The Uniform Law Commission found that the word “other” was added in error to the final Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act. | |
| Senate Bill 93 | Signed into law | Updates the terminology used to describe or citations used to reference those who make financial or healthcare decisions on behalf of a principal or individual, including when that principal or individual lacks capacity. | |
| HS 2 for House Bill 94 | Out of Senate Committee | Restricts law enforcement from cooperating with federal agencies conducting civil immigration enforcement activities at health-care facilities without permission from the Attorney General. | |
| Senate Bill 94 | Out of House Committee | Updates the Respiratory Care Advisory Council to the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline’s to allow qualified licensed respiratory therapists to perform all duties associated with extracorporeal life support. | Support |
| House Bill 100 | House Committee | Governor Carney’s Fiscal Year 26 Budget. | |
| Senate Bill 101 | Signed into law | Expands the definition of “patient-practitioner relationship” to include practitioners and patients, that provide and seek treatment for, opioid use disorder. | |
| Senate Bill 104 | Senate Committee | Requires the managing entities of certain buildings acquire and place at least 6 trauma kits in a clearly visible, centrally located, and accessible area. | |
| House Bill 105 | Signed into law | Requires that employers (of 11 or more employees) include salary or wage range information in all postings for job opportunities, both internally and externally. | Neutral |
| Senate Bill 107 | Signed into law | Enacts the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists, designed to facilities the interstate practice of school psychologist in school settings | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 109 | Signed into law | Enters Delaware into the Social Work Licensure Compact. | Support |
| Senate Bill 110 | Signed into law | Extends the deadline from 30 to 90 days that a physical therapist may treat an individual without a referral. | Support |
| HS 2 for House Bill 111 | Out of House Committee | Prohibits food establishments from providing any single-use food service items - exempts non-profits and healthcare settings. | |
| House Bill 115 | House Committee | Prohibits discrimination based on weight, height, or body size in transportation, public accommodation, housing, commerce and trade, employment, jury selection, education, and public administration. | |
| Senate Bill 117 | Senate Committee | Increases the minimum required coverage for hearing aids. | |
| House Bill 118 | Signed into law | Allows for Exceptional Care for Children (ECC) to continue receiving an exemption from the nursing facility quality assessment. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 120 | Senate Committee | Requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for biomarker testing. | |
| Senate Bill 122 | Signed into law | Directs the Division of Professional Regulation to collect health care workforce-related data during the licensing or renewal processes. | Support |
| House Bill 125 | House Committee | Expands free meals to all public school students in schools participating in the federal School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs, regardless of household income. | |
| Senate Bill 125 | Signed into law | Updates the Board of Dietetics/Nutrition enabling act, requiring applicants to obtain a minimum of a master’s degree to obtain a license. | |
| House Bill 126 | House Committee | Exempts from state income tax any income received by a full-time hourly wage-paid employee for overtime work performed in excess of 40 hours in a week. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 128 | Signed into law | Makes clarifying changes for the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | |
| Senate Bill 128 | Senate Committee | Requires DHSS to submit a Medicaid State Plan Amendment to CMS to be allowed to provide comprehensive dental benefits to Medicaid-eligible adults. | Support |
| Senate Bill 129 | Signed into law | Related to Opioid Settlement Funds and ongoing litigation. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 130 | Out of House Committee | This act prohibits retail stores and wholesalers from selling, distributing, or offering for sale expanded polystyrene foam products. | |
| Senate Bill 131 | Signed into law | Allows dental hygienist to administer anesthesia. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 134 | Signed into law | Modernizes the definition of reverse auctions and allows for the Section to use reverse auctions in the procurement of professional services. | |
| Senate Bill 135 | Senate Committee | Creates the Grants -In-Aid Committee. | |
| House Bill 135 | House Committee | Includes key definitions related to homelessness and provides protections for individuals experience homelessness related to utilizing public spaces for dwelling. | |
| Senate Bill 138 | Signed into law | Updates the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) Board of Directors. | Support |
| Senate Bill 139 | Signed into law | This act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault. | |
| House Bill 140 | Signed into law | Legalizes medical aid in dying also known as end of life options for terminally ill individuals. | No Position |
| Senate Bill 146 | Out of Senate Committee | This act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to post existing materials on type 1 diabetes to their website. | |
| Senate Bill 147 | Senate Committee | This act adopts the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. | |
| House Bill 148 | Signed into law | This act updates the Board of Nursing’s enabling act. | |
| House Bill 149 | Signed into law | Gives DPH the authority to approve supervised clinical training rotations for mental health providers at school- based health centers. | Support |
| Senate Bill 152 | Signed into law | Allows a designee consent to voluntary admission and sign for admission to a psychiatric hospital for youth in DFS custody. | Support |
| House Bill 153 | Signed into law | Prohibits arrest or detention by any person who does not have explicit statutory authority to carry out an arrest or detention. | Support Intent |
| HS 1 for House Bill 154 | Signed into law | Provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals. | Support |
| SS 2 for Senate Bill 155 | Signed into law | Makes changes to the Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission. | |
| SS1 for Senate Bill 156 | Signed into law | This act prohibits the reporting of medical debt information to consumer reporting agencies and prohibits any medical debt from being used when making decisions regarding someone’s credit, employment, or housing. | |
| House Bill 156 | Signed into law | Updates the Healthcare-Associated Infections Disclosure Act. | |
| House Bill 157 | Signed into law | Repeals the Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program, as the program is no longer operational. | |
| House Bill 158 | Signed into law | Clean up bill for the Public Health Emergency Planning Commission. | |
| Senate Bill 160 | Signed into law | This act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to post existing materials on type 1 diabetes to their website. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 161 | House Committee | This bill is intended to modernize the behavioral health licensing process. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 163 | House Committee | Provides a roadmap via an observational study of diabetic or pre-diabetic patients. | Support |
| Senate Bill 164 | Signed into law | Provides a one-time increase of 3% in aggregate worker’s compensation medical expenses to correct reimbursements for medical services coded as evaluation and management for worker compensation cases. | |
| House Bill 165 | House Committee | Authorizes physician assistants, occupational therapists, and nurse practitioners to practice dry needling. | |
| Senate Bill 166 | Stricken | All schools receiving approval or financial assistance from the State must provide parenting and pregnant students with specific protections. | |
| House Bill 167 | Signed into law | Updates the Family Justice Center Council Membership. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 169 | Signed into law | Expands the charge of the Behavioral Health Consortium. | |
| Senate Bill 170 | Signed into law | Updates membership to include a representative of a health care provider organization. | |
| Senate Bill 173 | Senate Committee | Updates the list of positions that may be funded through mental health services unit funding to include registered nurses authorized to practice by the Delaware Board of Nursing | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 173 | Signed into law | Requires health care employers to implement a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke. | |
| HS for House Bill 174 | House Committee | Imposes a surcharge on business, residential, wireless, and prepaid wireless services that will be used to fund suicide assistance services. | |
| House Bill 179 | House Committee | Changes the definition of employer in the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | |
| Senate Bill 180 | Signed into law | Updates the statute governing pharmacy licensure and practice. | Support |
| HS 1 for House Bill 181 | Out of House Committee | This bill changes the effective date of the penalty section of the Family and Medical Leave Program to January 1, 2029. | |
| Senate Bill 182 | Signed into law | Allows drug manufacturers or their agents and wholesalers to ship dialysate drugs and devices directly to home dialysis patients without a pharmacy license. | |
| Senate Bill 187 | Signed into law | Combines the Department of Education's High Needs Educator Student Loan Repayment Program, the Speech-Language Pathologist Student Loan Repayment Program, and the Mental Health Services Student Loan Repayment Program. | |
| House Bill 190 | Laid on Table | Creates a Grant-in-Aid Subcommittee and codifies requirements and procedures for organizations seeking a grant-in-aid from the General Assembly. | |
| House Bill 191 | Signed into law | Clarifies that a nonhuman entity, including an agent powered by AI, may not be licensed as a healthcare professional and may not use professional titles. | Support |
| Senate Bill 191 | Signed into law | Updates language around the board of directors for the Delaware Institute for Dental Education and Research. | Support |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 196 | Senate Committee | Requires long-term care facilities to fully disclose ownership information for the facility and disclose ownership information to residents prior to the transfer of ownership of a facility. | |
| Senate Bill 200 | Signed into law | The Fiscal Year 2026 Bond and Capital Improvements Act. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 200 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires insurance coverage for treatment to prevent HIV infection. | Support |
| House Bill 201 | Signed into law | Makes it easier and safer for victims of human trafficking to clear their criminal records that resulted from exploitation. | |
| House Bill 205 | Signed into law | Protects medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State. | Support |
| SS 1 for SB 208 | House Committee | Makes various updates to psychology professional(s) licensing and scope of work. | |
| House Bill 209 | Signed into law | Updates a cross-reference to regulations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 212 | Signed into law | Makes updates related to overpayment recovery and audit practices. | Support |
| Senate Bill 213 | Signed into Law | Hospital financial transparency bill. | Support |
| HS 1 for House Bill 215 | Out of House Committee | Updates definition of tobacco product and updates tax of products. | Support |
| Senate Bill 215 | Senate Committee | Requires a student athlete to compete in sports associated with the student biological sex. | |
| Senate Bill 216 | Ready for Governor's Action | Respiratory Care Interstate Compact. | Support |
| House Bill 223 | Senate Committee | Requires the state to develop or obtain informational materials concerning menstrual disorders to be provided upon request to school districts for purposes of educating students about menstrual disorders and their symptoms. | |
| House Bill 224 | Signed into law | Authorizes licensed Physician Assistants (PA) in Delaware to pronounce death and to complete a medical certification of death. | Support |
| House Bill 225 | Signed into law | The Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Act. | |
| Senate Bill 225 | Senate Committee | Governor’s Recommended Budget. | |
| House Bill 226 | Signed into law | This Act appropriates $37,632,955 to provide one-time funded items through the Office of Management and Budget. | |
| Senate Bill 226 | Ready for Governor's Action | Regarding medical marijuana use in hospitals for terminally ill patients. | Support |
| House Bill 230 | Signed into law | The Fiscal Year 2026 Grants-in-Aid Bill. | |
| House Bill 231 | Signed into law | Updates Delaware’s Uniform Health Data laws. | Support |
| House Bill 234 | Out of House Committee | Allows all employees to organize and to bargain collectively. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 234 | House Committee | Defines first responders as it related to emergency management. | |
| Senate Bill 236 | House Committee | Makes updates to the Uniform Parentage Act authorized under the Uniform Law Commission. | |
| Senate Bill 238 | Signed into law | Allows for Insurance Coverage for physical and chiropractic therapies for the spine and back. | Support |
| Senate Bill 248 | Out of House Committee | Increases worker’s compensation insurance credits that business can access. | |
| Senate Committee | Substance use harm reduction efforts. | Support | |
| Senate Bill 250 | Ready for Governor's Action | Makes updates to the Uniform Parentage Act authorized under the Uniform Law Commission. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 251 | Senate Committee | Repeals the current sections of the Delaware Code relating to termination of human pregnancy and enacts the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. | |
| Senate Bill 252 | Senate Committee | Require patients are offered an ultrasound before an abortion. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 252 | Out of House Committee | Makes use or consumption of a personal use quantity of a controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance (products containing marijuana) in an area accessible to the public or in a moving vehicle a civil violation rather than a misdemeanor. | |
| House Bill 257 | House Committee | Provides for forfeiture of the state’s contribution to a state, judicial, county, or municipal employee’s pension if that employee is convicted of a sexual offense against a child and the offense was in connection with or aided by the employee’s position. | |
| House Bill 259 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires DPH to submit a report and post on website the data related to kindergartners screened for lead poisoning. | |
| Senate Bill 259 | Out of House Committee | Proposes modifications to the in-building regulations regarding bi-directional amplifiers (BDAs) | |
| House Bill 260 | Signed into law | Adds optometrists as health care providers eligible for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program and limits the number repayment grants to 2 optometrists per year. | No Position |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 262 | Out of Senate Committee | Bans the distribution and manufacturing of Kratom. | Support |
| House Bill 264 | Out of Senate Committee | Adds a school nurse to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee (CLPPAC). | |
| Senate Bill 265 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires a long-term care facility to refund a resident or their family if their stay is less than 60 days. | |
| SS 2 for Senate Bill 269 | Senate Committee | Required coverage for hearing aides and related care. | |
| House Bill 270 | Signed into law | Fiscal Year 2026 Bond and Capital Improvements Act. | |
| Senate Bill 271 | Out of Senate Committee | Strengthens procedural protections for pharmacies, pharmacists, and consumers related to regulation of a pharmacy benefits manager. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 272 | Senate Committee | Creates the crime of ‘interference with reproductive health services or exercise of religion’. | |
| House Bill 273 | Out of House Committee | Employers may not ask an employee’s political views or donations, nor take adverse action based on political affiliations. | |
| Senate Bill 274 | House Committee | Updates Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment to align with national standards. | |
| House Bill 275 | House Committee | FY27 Bond & Capital Improvements Bill. | |
| Senate Bill 277 | Senate Committee | Establishes comprehensive protections and reasonable accommodations for pregnant and parenting students. | |
| Senate Bill 279 | House Committee | Standardizes how school-based occupational therapists are placed on the salary scale. | |
| House Bill 280 | Tabled | Establishes the use of a butterfly symbol on state driver’s licenses and IDs for individuals with nonapparent disabilities. | |
| House Bill 281 | House Committee | Creates the crime of child abuse by a person in a position of trust, authority or supervision. | |
| Senate Bill 281 | Out of House Comittee | Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill clean-up bill. | |
| Senate Bill 283 | House Committee | Expands dental hygienists' scope of practice in the state allowing them to use their full range of education and expertise. | Support |
| Senate Bill 284 | Senate Committee | This act makes it a crime to interfere with first responder. | |
| House Bill 288 | Signed into law | The Division of Developmental Disabilities Services shall submit an annual report on services. | |
| SS 1 for Senate Bill 289 | House Committee | Updates membership of the State Employee Benefits Committee. | |
| House Bill 293 | Out of Senate Committee | Adds hate crimes to the definition for funds collected through the Victims Compensation Assistance Program. | |
| House Bill 294 | Out of Senate Committee | Addressing designated parking spots at state buildings for pregnant people. | |
| Senate Bill 294 | Senate Committee | This act makes full-time students attending post-secondary education for an associate or baccalaureate degree eligible for child care assistance. | |
| Senate Bill 295 | Senate Committee | This act adds definitions to update the scope of practice for aestheticians. | |
| Senate Bill 296 | House Committee | Makes updates to the way the Delaware Health Fund is allocated. | |
| Senate Bill 299 | Senate Committee | Creates a new tax credit applicable to overtime for compensation paid to workers that work over 40 hours in a week. | |
| Senate Bill 301 | House Committee | Requires that a hospital create a discharge plan if a pregnant patient who is experiencing signs or symptoms consistent with labor is discharged before delivery. | Neutral |
| House Bill 305 | Out of House Committee | Roadmap via a 3 years observational study of diabetic patients to change care from 'sick-care’ to ‘well-care.’ | Support Intent |
| House Bill 306 | Senate Committee | Requires disclosures when a consumer is interacting with AI or a computer instead of a human. | |
| House Bill 309 | Senate Committee | Updates code to support the transfer of the Autism Program from the Department of Health to the Department of Education. | |
| House Bill 312 | Signed into law | Updates methods of lead testing allowed in children under sixteen years old. | |
| Senate Bill 313 | Out of Senate Committee | Private equity in healthcare bill. Protects Delaware’s nonprofit acute care hospitals from acquisition by entities other than charities or not-for-profit entities during a moratorium period. | Support |
| House Bill 318 | House Committee | Eliminates the Health Resources Board and Certificate of Need Review. | |
| Senate Bill 319 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires coverage for medically necessary diagnostic services and treatment for menopause, perimenopause, and symptoms of menopause or perimenopause. | |
| Senate Bill 320 | Senate Committee | This act modernizes Delaware’s pharmacy practice laws by authorizing pharmacists to practice to the full extent of their education and training. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 322 | Out of House Committee | Allows health-care facility employees or security to reasonably detain individuals posing a safety risk on-site while waiting for law enforcement | Support |
| House Bill 324 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires Tattoo Parlors and Board Piercing Establishments to post signs related to human trafficking and directs DHSS to encourage these establishments professional trainings related to human trafficking. | |
| House Bill 325 | Signed into law | This bill updates physician assistants to physician associated and updates their scope of work. | House Bill 325 |
| House Bill 327 | Out of Senate Committee | Establishes statewide standards for levels of neonatal care for facilities that operate neonatal intensive care units. | |
| Senate Bill 328 | Senate Committee | Updates school building maintenance standards to require the facilities evaluation instrument be established through regulation and clarifies that the minimum standard of good repair facility category related to hazardous materials includes that of lead. | |
| House Bill 332 | Out of House Committee | Regulates kratom products and imposes civil penalties for violations | Support Intent |
| Senate Bill 333 | Stricken | Requires long-term care facilities to have liability coverage. | |
| Senate Bill 334 | Senate Committee | Known as the Health Care Professionals Access Act and requires carriers to participate in uniform processes related to carrier credentialing. | |
| House Bill 337 | Out of Senate Committee | This act requires that effective amounts of folic acid be added to corn masa flour and corn masa which are staples in many minority diets. | Support |
| House Bill 338 | Out of Senate Committee | Requires that individual, group, and blanket health insurance carriers provide for and pay for services (including immunizations) that were recommended by the CDC that were in effect as of January 1, 2025. | Support |
| Senate Bill 339 | Senate Committee | ||
| House Bill 341 | House Committee | Creates a presumption that parents are not liable for the care, maintenance, and support of children committed to DSCYF, or admitted to a service provided by DSCYF. | |
| House Bill 343 | Senate Committee | Allows the Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) to serve a non-custodial parent’s summons for family court hearings by any form of mail with proof of delivery, including using the USPS or other commercial delivery services such as FedEx or UPS. | |
| House Bill 344 | House Committee | This act clarifies and streamlines the disclosure and enforcement provisions of Delaware’s campaign finance laws. | |
| House Bill 346 | Out of House Committee | This Act updates Delaware laws relating to Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) prevention and control, much of which are outdated and do not reflect current research and medical practice. | |
| House Bill 353 | Ready for Governor's Action | This act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) to keep it current and maintain its national preeminence. | |
| House Bill 358 | Out of House Committee | Provides guidelines for Delaware schools in addressing elopement of students with IEPs and 504 Plans | |
| House Bill 360 | Out of House Committee | Requires political committees to submit quarterly campaign finance reports, removes the requirement to submit a campaign finance report 30 days before an election. | |
| House Bill 369 | Senate Committee | Codifies the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 370 | Ready for Governor's Action | Codifies the Delaware Economic & Financial Advisory Council (“DEFAC”). | |
| House Bill 380 | Senate Committee | Updates Delaware's existing data privacy laws. | |
| House Bill 381 | Senate Committee | Mandates that under certain conditions organizations must notify the attorney general when there is a computer security breach. | |
| House Bill 385 | House Committee | Creates a Nurse Preceptor Incentives Program | Support |
| House Bill 387 | House Committee | Gradually increases Purchase of Care eligibility from 200% to 275% FPL over 5 years starting July 1, 2026. | |
| House Bill 388 | Out of House Committee | Allows medically disqualified individual to retain the individual's physical driver’s license for identification purposes by signing an affidavit. | |
| HS 1 for House Bill 394 | Out of House Committee | Establishes a prohibition on the sale of energy drinks or caffeinated dietary supplements to minors. | Support |
| HS 1 for House Bill 396 | Out of House Committee | Retail food establishments with 20 or more Delaware locations must display a warning symbol next to high-caffeine hand-crafted drinks. Subject to monetary fines. | Support |
| House Bill 403 | House Committee | Requires taprooms and taverns to keep at least 2 working opioid antagonists on the premises at all times. Training requirements are included. | |
| House Bill 408 | Out of House Committee | Aligns the definition of child sex trafficking victim with the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. | |
| House Bill 409 | Out of House Committee | Adds knowingly “operating”, “conducting”, or “advertising” prostitution businesses as acts that constitute promoting prostitution in the second degree - defines “illicit massage establishment” | |
| House Bill 422 | House Committee | This act requires enhanced informed consent before administering vaccines to infants under 12 months of age. Providers must discuss possible side effects. | |
| House Bill 424 | House Committee | Repeals the Autism Surveillance and Registration Program and requires that protected health information collected at an individual level to be expunged under statutory confidentiality requirements. | |
| House Bill 425 | House Committee | Increases the salary supplement for school counselors and school nurses from 6% to 12% upon national certification. | |
| House Bill 429 | House Committee | This Act modernizes Delaware law by adding modern medical treatment options biologics or biosimilars to the step therapy exception process. | |
| House Bill 432 | House Committee | Establishes a Delaware Healthcare Apprenticeship Degree Program to be developed by the Department of Labor in partnership with the Department of Education. | |
| House Bill 435 | House Committee | Prohibits individual, group, state employee, and Medicaid health plans from differentiating in the reimbursement rate of a health service based on whether the service was provided by a certified registered nurse anesthetist or by a physician. | |
| HCR 1 | Passed - no further action | Recognizes the significant contributions of nurses as frontline healthcare workers and the importance of basic rights and protections. | |
| HJR 2 | Signed into law | Directs DHSS to explore participating in the federal Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). | Support |
| SJR 2 | Signed into law | Requires Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a report to the GA by January 1, 2026 for the provision of insurance coverage for Community Health Worker services by Medicaid providers. | Support |
| SJR 5 | Senate Committee | Increases the income threshold for qualifying for Medicaid Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) to 300% of SSI. | Support |
| SJR 6 | Signed into law | Directs DMMA to explore adoption of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) From-Conception-to-End-of-Pregnancy (FCEP). | Support |
| SS 1 for SJR 7 | Signed into law | Directs the SEBC to utilize specific strategies and policies when interacting and contracting with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) to achieve lower cost pharmaceutical drug benefit plans. | |
| HJR 10 | House Committee | Indicates that the reimbursement rates for Purchase of Care providers serving children ages 0-5 should be increased by 10% for FY2027 across all settings. | |
| HCR 18 | Passed - no further action | Recognizes March 18, 2025 as the inaugural “Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness.” | Support |
| HCR 76 | Passed in Senate | Recognizes significant health concerns regarding water bead toys and urges the Delaware Department of Education to take regulatory action to keep children safe. | |
| HCR 82 | Passed - no further action | Report on perinatal mental health in Delaware. | Support |
| HCR 102 | Passed - no further action | Recognizing the First State Health Leaders Alliance | Support |
| SCR 111 | Passed - no further action | Establishes the Automobile Insurance Reform Task Force. | |
| HCR 121 | Passed - no further action | Recognizes National Hospital Week | Support |
| SCR 133 | Passed - no further action | Recognizing the importance of Forensic Nurse Examiners. | Support |