| SCR 64 | Passed | Wilson | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates May 2025 as "Small Business Month" in the State of Delaware. | DESIGNATING MAY 2025 AS "SMALL BUSINESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SCR 63 | Passed | Lockman | This resolution designates May 7, 2025, as “Plastic Free Lunch Day” in Delaware to recognize student-led efforts to reduce plastic waste in schools and promote environmental sustainability. | RECOGNIZING MAY 7, 2025, AS “PLASTIC FREE LUNCH DAY” IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE. |
| SA 1 to SB 87 | PWB | Huxtable | This Amendment adds a requirement that local governments provide a draft to DSHA and OSPC of a proposed ordinance, or a copy of the finalized ordinance if already passed, within 6 months of this Act going into effect. This Amendment also requires DSHA and OSPC to assist local governments in the implementation of this Act by providing outreach, education, and resources related to the implementation of this Act. These provisions will ensure that local governments are working toward adopting the required ordinances within the required timeframe and will assure local governments that OSPC and DSHA will provide outreach, education, and assistance with its implementation. | |
| HA 1 to HB 89 | PWB | Morrison | This amendment to House Bill No. 89 clarifies that communications made as part of the Home Improvement Dispute Resolution Process may be admitted as evidence for limited purposes in the discretion of the court in subsequent civil litigation, and further clarifies that they may only be admitted in a criminal case where there is a prosecution for perjury or giving a false statement or where the statement is being introduced as a prior inconsistent statement of a testifying defendant that may be used for the limited purpose of impeaching the defendant's credibility if it has been disclosed to the defense in discovery. | |
| HB 141 | Committee | K. Williams | This Act directs the Department of Safety and Homeland Security (DSHS) to develop a Firearm Responsibilities Notice for distribution to gun purchasers to ensure dissemination of important information relating to safe and lawful handling of firearms. It mandates that licensed importers, manufacturers, and dealers cannot sell, transfer, or deliver a firearm to another person without requiring the buyer to review and sign a Firearm Responsibilities Notice. Licensed dealers that provide background checks to facilitate a sale between unlicensed persons are also responsible for providing a copy of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice to the prospective buyer and retaining a copy of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice signed by the prospective buyer. The purpose of the Firearm Responsibilities Notice is to deter straw purchases and other illegal transfer of firearms, to ensure awareness of Delaware’s gun safety laws, and to increase the reporting of lost or stolen firearms. The Firearm Responsibilities Notice is also intended to prevent accidental shootings by providing information on gun safety and available gun safety courses. It is also designed to reduce suicides by providing the national suicide prevention hotline number.
This bill requires licensed firearm dealers to securely maintain a record of all signed Firearm Responsibilities Notices. This bill tasks the Department with creating the Firearm Responsibilities Notice, in consultation with the Department of Justice and other stakeholders, posting the Firearm Responsibilities Notice to its website, and providing (free of charge) the Firearm Responsibilities Notice to licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, and licensed dealers in the State.
All licensed deadly weapons dealers in this State are mandated to keep and securely store signed Firearm Responsibilities Notices for at least 3 years as part of the records required to be kept and maintained in the place of business at all times.
A violation of provisions of Title 24 relating to records or background checks for sales between unlicensed persons is already a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum fine of $250 or $500 and 6 months imprisonment. This law will expand the scope of those misdemeanors, thus requiring a 2/3 vote.
The bill is effective 180 days after enactment. The DSHS is required to conduct outreach to licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, and licensed dealers in Delaware prior to the effective date to make them aware of the new requirements imposed by this Act and provide access to the Firearm Responsibilities Notice as developed by the Department. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREARMS. |
| HA 1 to HB 45 | PWB | Griffith | This Amendment specifies that the term "firearms merchant" applies to a federal firearms licensee physically located in Delaware. This Amendment also changes the effective date of the Act to January 1, 2026. | |
| SA 1 to HB 24 | PWB | Richardson | This Amendment changes the timeframe by which a candidate must notify the Town Manager of their candidacy from 10 to 30 days prior to the election. | |
| SS 1 for SB 119 | Signed | Pettyjohn | There is a conflict in Delaware law related to determining whether the name of the husband who dies during the period between the creation of the embryo and placement of the embryo should or can be entered on the birth certificate as the father of the child conceived.
Because of this conflict, this Act directs the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to immediately amend the birth certificate of the impacted individual, Levi Ryan Murray, to include the name of his father, Ryan Murray, on his birth certificate.
This Act is necessary so that this child’s birth certificate can be completed while the General Assembly considers how to resolve this conflict in the law generally.
The only difference between Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 119 and SB 119 is that SS 1 for SB 119 corrects a misspelling of “Murray”. | AN ACT DIRECTING THE STATE REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS TO ISSUE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE WITH THE NAME OF THE FATHER OF LEVI RYAN MURRAY. |
