Significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2015 session.

HB-3

Senate Sponsor[s]: Poore

Requires that employers receiving state contracts ensure employees receive equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, permitting pay differentials based on factors, such as seniority, merit systems or production factors in line with requirements of the federal Equal Pay Act.

Status: Signed into law

Significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2015 session.

SCR-6

Sponsor[s]: Townsend, Henry, Peterson, Poore, Sokola

Delaware joins states, including Vermont, California and Illinois, in calling on Congress to convene an Article V Constitutional Convention in response to and to override the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Citizens United and other campaign finance cases.

Status: Passed in Senate

Significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2015 session.

SB-135

Sponsor[s]: McBride

Co-sponsor[s]: Hall-Long, Poore, Townsend

Defines, prohibits and establishes penalties for non-essential locomotive idling between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Status: Signed into law

Some significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2014 session.

Requires the newly-created Office of Animal Welfare in the Division of Public Health to develop uniform training and certification standards for animal control officers and animal cruelty agents.

Some significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2014 session.

Designates bicycling as Delaware’s state sport.

Some significant legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Poore during the 2014 session.

Bars health insurers, health service corporations, health maintenance organizations or managed care organizations from setting allowable charges below the cost incurred by ambulance companies for providing runs and basic life support services.