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HB-96

HB-96 – Act To Amend Title 26 of the Delaware Code Relating to the Jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission and Public Utilities Providing Telecommunication Services

Senate Sponsor[s]: Bushweller

Senate Co-sponsor[s]: Blevins, Ennis, Peterson, Poore, Venables

Synopsis: Make changes to telecommunication regulation and services by reducing Public Service Commission oversight of some competitive services while maintaining PSC oversight of basic service and placing caps on rate increase for basic services at 10 percent per year for five years, effective 1 Jan. 14 and at 5 percent per year starting 1 Jan. 2019, including individual residential local exchanges, creates the Delaware Broad- band Fund, paid through a 3 1/2-year assessment on service providers, to help support and enhance broadband services in public schools and libraries and to expand broadband services into under- or un-served rural areas. It also amends sections of existing telecommunications law to provide consistency and allows the use of alternative technologies if the PSC orders extensions of a utility’s facilities.

Status: Signed

 

HB-163

HB-163 – An Act to Amend Titles 10 and 29 of the Delaware Code Relating to Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Senate Sponsor[s]: Poore

Senate Co-sponsor[s]: Ennis, Sokola, Townsend

Synopsis: Requires the Kids’ Department to create and maintain a developmentally appropriate program fully integrating independent living services for foster children between the ages of 14 and 21 to help them make a successful transition to the adult world.

Status: Awaiting Signature (as of 9/17/2013)

 

HB-105

HB-105 – An Act to Amend Title 15 of the Delaware Code Relating to Elections

Senate Sponsor[s]: Henry

Senate Co-sponsor[s]: Peterson, Poore, Sokola, Townsend

Synopsis: Allows Election Day voter registration in primary, special and general elections. It also allows for Election Day processing of address or name changes by registered voters.

Status: House Ready List (as of 9/17/2013)

 

HB-75

HB-75 – An Act to Amend Title 13 of the Delaware Code Relating to Domestic Relations to Provide for Same-Gender Civil Marriage and to Convert Existing Civil Unions to Civil Marriages

Senate Sponsor[s]: Sokola, Blevins

Senate Co-sponsor[s]: McDowell, Peterson, Poore, Townsend

Synopsis: Repeals the state’s version of the Defense of Marriage Act and allows same-sex couples to legally marry. It eliminates civil unions and allows people in civil unions to convert the union to a marriage and confers all legal benefits available to married couples. It does not force clergy or churches to host same-sex marriage services, if such unions conflict with their beliefs.

Status: Signed

 

SB-97

SB-97 – An Act to Amend Titles 6, 9, 11, 18, 19, 25, and 29 of the Delaware Code Relating to Hate Crimes and Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity

Sponsor[s]: Henry, Blevins

Co-sponsor[s]: McDowell, Peterson, Poore, Sokola, Townsend

Synopsis: Extends protections under Delaware’s anti-discrimination and hate crime laws to the transgendered. As amended, the bill calls on but does not mandate facilities where a transgendered person might disrobe to offer reasonable accommodations.

Status: Signed

 

SB-9

SB-9 – An Act to Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code Relating to Criminal Sentences

Sponsor[s]: Townsend, Henry

Co-sponsor[s]: Blevins, Bushweller, Ennis, Hall-Long, Marshall, McBride, McDowell, Peterson, Poore, Sokola, Venables

Synopsis: Brings Delaware’s juvenile sentencing laws into line with recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings by eliminating mandatory sentences of life without parole in Murder One cases, giving judges discretion in sentencing and eliminating life without parole as an option for juveniles in other serious felony cases.

Status: Signed

 

HB-180

HB-180 – An Act to Amend Title 21 of the Delaware Code Relating to Commercial Vehicles

Senate Sponsor[s]: Poore

Senate Co-Sponsor[s]: Bushweller, Henry

Synopsis: Requires all commercial vehicles, except farm vehicles, titled after 1 Jan. 2014 of 26,001 pounds or more be equipped with an audible backing warning.

Status: Signed

 

SB-124

SB-124 – An Act to Amend Title 29 of the Delaware Code Relating to the Division of the Public Advocate

Sponsor[s]: Poore

Co-Sponsor[s]: Sokola, Townsend

Synopsis: Refocuses the Consumers Counsel’s primary representation duties to small businesses and residential customers

Status: Signed