b

SA 1 to SB 137

This Amendment lowers the penalty for possessing a drug masking product from a class A misdemeanor to a class B misdemeanor.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 45

This Amendment makes the possession or private use or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana a civil offense for an individual who is under 21 years of age only for the first and second offense. A third offense would be an unclassified misdemeanor.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 126

This Amendment does the following: 1. Provides that the Delaware Volunteer Fire Association participate in defining tobacco use that excludes a covered firefighter from the presumption of eligibility under this Act. 2. Provides that the State Fire Prevention Commission, Department of Human Resources, and the Delaware Volunteer Fire Association must establish the requirements for medical examinations under this Act. 3. Clarifies that the definition of "occupational disease" applies only to this Act and not to Worker's Compensation. 4. Makes this Act effective January 1, 2020, or when the requirements under § 6709(d)(2)b. of Title 18 are established, whichever is earlier.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to HB 114

This Amendment does the following: (1) Strikes House Amendment No. 1 to House Bill No. 114, reverting the waiting periods for public access to individual vital records to the periods provided in House Bill No. 114 and then amends House Bill No. 114 to further revert the waiting periods for birth and death records to 72 and 40 years, respectively, and to increase the waiting period for marriage records from 40 years to 50 years. (2) Amends House Bill No. 114 to include the Delaware Code section heading for § 209 of Title 13 to add clarity. (3) Requires the county clerks of the peace and the Office of Vital Statistics to prepare and submit a report to President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, with copies to all members of the General Assembly and the Librarian of the Division of Research of Legislative Council, no later than March 1, 2020, on the feasibility of increasing the waiting periods related to the full disclosure of birth, death, and marriage records.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SA 1 to SB 159

This Amendment makes a technical correction.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 159

This Amendment removes language to clarify which entities may request an audit.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 154

This Amendment does the following: - Changes the name of the advisory council and clarifies the advisory council’s role in advising the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (“Division”). - Changes and simplifies the appointing authority of the advisory council’s membership, so that 1 member is appointed by the Division’s Secretary and the remaining 8 members are appointed by the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee. - Clarifies that the data required in the annual report may not include information that identifies a specific patient or provider. - Provides that the data that must be included in the annual report are not records and proceedings for the purposes of § 1768 of Title 24.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 150

This Amendment does the following: (1) Clarifies that the Department of Education (“Department”) can provide the uniform kindergarten registration process in languages other than English and Spanish. (2) Removes the exemplary list of documents required to be completed by a parent who is registering a child for kindergarten. (3) Requires that information related to all types of early learning experiences that a child has before kindergarten is collected by the uniform kindergarten registration process. (4) Clarifies that all personal documents available for Internet-based or electronic upload must be accepted by schools for consideration, including birth certificates. (5) Requires that the Department establish a process for supporting a parent to register a child for kindergarten before the application deadline for the school district enrollment choice program under § 403 of Title 14 rather than requiring the Department to establish a date by which it is recommended a parent register a child. (6) Makes additional conforming amendments.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 162

This Amendment corrects the name of the town to Millville.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to HB 142

This amendment makes a technical correction.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 2 to SB 71

This Amendment does the following: 1. Clarifies that a pharmacy benefit manager is not violating this Act in situations where a pharmaceutical product has an extremely limited distribution and the only local pharmacy with that product is owned by the pharmacy benefit manager. 2. Revises the hospital exception to the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists. 3. Exempts federally qualified health centers and other non-profit community health centers from the the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 3 to SB 71

This Amendment exempts pharmacies holding a permit on the effective date of this Act from the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by pharmacists if the pharmacy relocates the business or undergoes a restructuring of ownership.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 4 to SB 71

This Amendment allows a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to require an insured to use a specialty pharmacy owned by the PBM and to provide incentives to an insured to use a specialty or mail-order pharmacy owned by the PBM.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 173

This Amendment adds the Presidents of the Chief School Officers Association and the Delaware School Business Officials to the Consortium and adds specific information that must be included in the report that summarizes the work of the Consortium.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to HB 205

This Amendment removes the increase in the permissible apprentice-to-licensed professional ratio in a cosmetology shop, thereby leaving the existing ratio of a maximum of 2 apprentices for each licensed professional in a shop. This Amendment also makes 2 technical corrections.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 24

This Amendment clarifies that the Department of Health and Social Services may establish intervals of different lengths for re-evaluation of the conditions for which a patient receives a compassionate use registry identification card.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 175

This amendment clarifies the language under which a student who is a SEED grant recipient, who completes an associate degree and immediately thereafter enrolls in a bachelor’s degree program at either the University of Delaware and/or Delaware Technical and Community College, will be eligible for SEED grant money toward the student’s junior year of higher education.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to HB 212

This Amendment increases the height restriction established under this Act for an industrial landfill to 140 feet. This Amendment also makes technical corrections to conform House Amendment No. 1 to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual by using the proper internal hierarchy designations, referencing the Delaware Code section governing hazardous waste storage facilities and sanitary landfills, and using the correct sentence format.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 201

This Amendment makes technical corrections.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 200

This Act makes technical corrections, including to comply with the original intent of the law, Chapter 329, Volume 80 of the Laws of Delaware.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 195

This Amendment extends the amount of time a property owner has to claim the deprivation of the use of property from 15 to 60 days so that it is consistent with similar provisions in the Code.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 184

This Amendment makes a technical correction to replace incorrect existing Delaware Code language.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 2 to HB 212

First, this Amendment strikes House Amendments 1 and 5 and House Amendment 1 to House Amendment 5. This Amendment also strikes Senate Amendment 1. Additionally, this Amendment clarifies that the definition of industrial landfill does not include a sanitary landfill or a disposal of hazardous waste. Moreover, this Amendment makes restrictions for any industrial landfill that has not been approved by the Department to accept waste as of the effective date of the Act. Those restrictions include that the county, municipality, or other governmental entity having jurisdiction must be satisfied that all of the following have been established: (1) The property on which the industrial landfill is or would be located is within an area which is zoned for heavy industrial activity. (2) The property is subject to such process rules, regulations or ordinances as the county, municipality, or governmental entity requires by law. (3) Necessary conditions may be applied in order to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of citizens within the jurisdiction. (4) The industrial landfill is at least ¼ mile from any residence, school, park, hospital, residential community, and federally designated wetlands. Finally, this Amendment provides that no permit or modification to a permit may be granted for an industrial landfill that authorizes a maximum height of more than 140 feet. This height restriction applies to any industrial landfill that has not been approved by the Department to accept waste as of the effective date of the Act.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 182

This Amendment does the following: 1. Requires a municipality exercising its authority under § 134(e) of Title 17 of the Delaware Code (regarding prohibiting the operation of trucks or other commercial vehicles or imposing limitations as to the weight of trucks or other commercial vehicles on designated highways) to submit an order to the Registrar of Regulations for publication in the Register of Regulations. 2. Requires the Department of Transportation to post a municipality's order with similar orders on the Department's website.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 1 to SB 169

This Amendment clarifies that interactive computer services are not liable under this Act for content provided by another person.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

SA 3 to HB 212

This Amendment restores the intent of the Bill and Senate Amendment No. 2, which is to impose a height restriction of 140 feet for existing industrial landfills. The buffer requirements in Senate Amendment No. 2 will apply to industrial landfills not approved to accept waste as of the effective date of the Bill.



  • Delaware Senate - Passed Legislation

b

Bajaj Finance hires 111 from IITs

Bajaj Finance, one of the largest non-banks in India, currently has over 20,000 employees working across 2,000 locations in India. The company currently has more than 36 million customers availing various products from its diversified portfolio. 




b

UP govt tables Rs 4,211 crore second supplementary Budget for FY20

UP govt tables Rs 4,211 crore second supplementary Budget for FY20




b

CAA protests: Those born here before 1987 are Indians, clarifies government

A top government official said according to the 2004 amendments of the Citizenship Act, if one parent is an Indian and neither is an illegal immigrant, a person is considered an Indian citizen.




b

Govt will have to take back Citizenship Act: Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut says Maharashtra govt’s work will be based on issues, not Hindutva.




b

Maharashtra: Power elites stage a comeback as Uddhav Thackerey expands cabinet

With this exercise, the state’s new council of ministers — 33 cabinet and 10 state — has hit the maximum limit, capped at 15 per cent of the Vidhan Sabha strength of 288.




b

Jammu and Kashmir: SMS restored, broadband internet back in govt hospitals

SHORT messaging services (SMS) on mobile phones will be restored in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday midnight, the 150th day since the government suspended it in the erstwhile state.




b

Jammu and Kashmir: Govt to bring domicile provision to protect jobs; land ownership rights to be firmed up

For protection of land ownership in J&K, a handful of provisions, the official said, are being considered which include land ownership protection regimes in force in states such as Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.




b

All is not lost! UCO Bank recovers Rs 800-Rs 900 crore from four stressed accounts

At the end of the second quarter, the Kolkata-based bank's gross NPAs, in absolute terms, stood at Rs 25,665.14 crore, registering over 12% quarter-on-quarter fall.




b

There’s too much hype about Pakistan’s nuclear capability: Anil Kakodkar

Nuclear physicists Kakodkar and Gangotra believe India’s nuclear industry “lost time” due to liability regime that followed 2008 nuclear deal, say country should aim for 50% nuclear energy, and insist that the space programme is about “national pride”, not jingoism




b

LIC likely to grow by 20% in FY20, says chairman MR Kumar

LIC had sold around 2 crore policies in the last five years, he said. In the current year, the Indian life insurance business reported a new business premium of Rs 1.69 lakh crore of which LIC had garnered about Rs 1.2 lakh crore.




b

Record $83-billion bond bill looming over Indian firms

Chief among the problems is a lingering crisis at shadow banks that started in 2018, with a shocking default by then high-rated lender IL&FS. The woes mounted last year when major mortgage lender Dewan Housing Finance missed repayments.




b

Parliament makeover: Architect shares blueprint of Central Vista, here’s all you wanted to ask

In a detailed presentation and interview, Dr Bimal Patel shares the blueprint and objectives of the coveted project, says it will modernise administration and make it more efficient, defends the 2024 deadline for its completion.




b

CAA about giving citizenship, not taking it away: PM in Bengal

The Prime Minister said the dispute that has arisen over CAA has made the world take notice of the persecution of minorities in Pakistan.




b

Andhra Assembly passes Bill to establish three capitals in Visakhapatnam, Amaravati and Kurnool

This was protested by hundreds of farmers and women in Amaravati region who defied prohibitory orders and broke security cordon to reach the state legislature complex.




b

CAA rules: Applicants must submit proof of religion too

Assam had asked the MHA to limit the time period to three months, as it felt that keeping it open-ended could further accentuate the apprehensions over CAA in the state.




b

Delhi Election 2020: Election Commission bans Parvesh, Thakur from campaigning

The EC said the decision was taken as it was not satisfied with their respective replies to the showcause notices. 




b

Jamia student shot at as 20 cops watch; proctor says minister Anurag Thakur is to blame

The injured student, identified as Shadab Farooq, is from Jammu & Kashmir, and a first-year student of mass communication at Jamia.




b

Coronavirus outbreak: Second case reported from Kerala, parents under observation

The 22-year-old travelled on the same flight which the first case took.




b

Coronavirus outbreak: Third virus case reported from Kerala, student who returned from Wuhan tests positive

At present, around 2,000 people are under observation in Kerala. “A total of 1,999 people have recently returned from China.




b

Aurbindo Pharma posts net profit of Rs 705 crore in December quarter

Revenues from anti-retroviral (ARV) formulations stood at Rs313.4 crore as against Rs281.3 crore, an increase by 11.4% y-o-y.




b

NPR secular under Congress, communal when BJP introduced it: Shahnawaz Hussain

BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain asserts the protest in Shaheen Bagh is backed by the Opposition, says the Centre has given citizenship to more than 500 Muslims from Pakistan since 2014, and argues it is wrong to say that there are no Muslims with the BJP




b

Questions of law can go to larger bench in a review: SC

The nine-judge Bench, which a week ago clarified it won’t be deciding the review petition but only lay down the general law to be followed, will examine the “scope and ambit of right to freedom of religion under Article 25 of the Constitution”.




b

This is birth of a new politics, the politics of work, says Kejriwal

In his speech Kejriwal once again stressed the importance of the bijli, paani, shiksha and swastha model, the defining theme of his governance model.




b

Delhi Elections results: In Okhla of Shaheen Bagh, big win for AAP’s Amanatullah Khan

In his campaign speeches, Shah had asked voters to press the EVM button in favour of BJP so that “its current shocks Shaheen Bagh”.