In December 2025, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 153rd General Assembly in 2025 or as they reviewed titles of the Code. While technical in nature, these changes are beyond the authority of the Code Revisors to make and can only be done by the General Assembly through legislation. This Act also includes technical corrections identified outside of the list provided by the Code Revisors. This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage to err on the side of caution because some of the sections of the Delaware Code being revised may require a super-majority vote under the Delaware Constitution. This Act also makes also makes basic technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 1. This section corrects an error in § 1354(b)(4) of Title 4 from House Bill No. 110 of the 153rd General Assembly by deleting an extraneous “and” to make it clear that the specified limitations regarding marijuana establishment license applicant eligibility apply to any of among the directors, officers, board members, or such other person who holds an ownership interest of 10% or more in a licensed marijuana establishment or a business entity that is an applicant for a marijuana establishment Section 2. This section corrects an error in § 811(a)(3) of Title 11 from Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 356 of the 126th General Assembly in misidentifying a paragraph reference from the Criminal Code of 1953 as a subsection reference. Section 3. This section corrects an error in § 917(a)(1) of Title 11 from House Bill No. 284 of the 142nd General Assembly by updating an internal reference to a defined term in 25 Del. C. § 7003(13) and by making a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual style. Section 4. This section corrects an error in § 1301(d)(1) of Title 11 from Senate Bill No. 48 of the 153rd General Assembly by making clear that neither paragraph (a)(3)b.1. nor (a)(3)b.1. of that statute are violated if a parent of a student with and individualized education program is addressing a health or safety concern involving their student. Section 5. This section corrects an error in § 4201(c) of Title 11 from Senate Bill No. 285 of the 139th General Assembly by correcting the impression that rape crimes, as defined by present statutes, are not violent felonies. Section 6. This section corrects an error in § 9423(3)b. of Title 11 from Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill No. 17 of the 153rd General Assembly by inserting the missing words “have a right” in order to match context in introductory paragraph (3) of that statute. Section 7. This section corrects an error in § 1703(d)(3) of Title 14 from House Bill No. 1 from the 146th General Assembly by inserting a missing introductory paragraph for paragraph (d)(3)b. Section 8. This section corrects errors in § 3480(a)(7) and (g) of Title 14 from House Bill No.160 of the 153rd General Assembly by correcting syntax and punctuation in (a)(7) and revising grammar in (g) to prevent use of a double negative. Section 9. This section corrects a grammar error in the introductory paragraph of § 3124 of Title 16 from Senate Bill No. 273 of the 136th General Assembly. Section 10. This section inserts use of the Oxford comma in § 4908B of Title 16 as missing in Senate Bill No. 129 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 11. This section adds § 5196B(d) of Title 16 which was inserted by House Bill No. 225 of the 153rd General Assembly without appropriate underlining. Section 12. This section corrects a style error in § 402(3) of Title 18 from Senate Bill No. 462 from the 138th General Assembly by deleting “(1)” following “§ 5901” as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 13. This section corrects errors in § 3371 of Title 18 from House Bill No. 381 of the 148th General Assembly by making clear that the defined terms apply to the entire subchapter and by making stylistic changes as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 14. This section corrects errors in § 3401 of Title 18 from Senate Bill No. 160 of the 135th General Assembly by inserting an introductory paragraph to this defined terms statute, and inserting Oxford commas, as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 15. This section corrects a copy and paste error in § 3565A(b) of Title 18 from Senate Bill No. 207 of the 147th General Assembly by properly substituting “group and blanket” for “individual” and by making stylistic changes as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 16. This section corrects errors in § 5901 of Title 18 from Senate Bill No. 46 of the 146th General Assembly and Senate Bill 154 of the 147th General Assembly by placing the defined terms in alphabetical order, redesignating them accordingly, standardizing language, and inserting Oxford commas as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. Section 17. This section adjusts internal references in § 5920(a) of Title 18 based upon corrections in Section 15 of this Act, which placed the defined terms in § 5901 of Title 18 in alphabetical order and redesignated them accordingly. Section 18. This section corrects an outdated reference in § 3116(a)(1) of Title 20, from House Bill No. 263 from the 139th General Assembly by substituting “Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security” for “Secretary of Public Safety.” Section 19. This section corrects an error in § 3102(d)(1) of Title 21 from Senate Bill No. 325 of the 140th General Assembly by updating a U.S. Code citation to the registration provisions in § 3 of the federal Military Selective Services Act. Section 20. This section makes grammar corrections, as directed by the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual, to § 1799H(1), (2), (4), (7), and (8) of Title 24 as originally enacted by Senate Bill No. 259 of the 145th General Assembly. Section 21. This section corrects an error in § 2817(6)b. of Title 24 from House Bill No. 81 of the 153rd General Assembly by inserting the missing words “registrant status” following “the applicant’s IntPE” in the penultimate sentence. Section 22. This section corrects errors in § 7013(g)(1) of Title 25 from Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill No. 56 of the 153rd General Assembly by inserting language, regarding transactions to terminate the right to transfer manufactured home leases, which had been added in the bill without appropriate underlining of new insertions. Section 23. This section deletes stray language in § 8814(g) of Title 29 to correct an error which was created when House Substitute 1 for House Bill No. 1 of the 153rd General Assembly amended the subsection without taking into account prior amendments to the subsection by both House Bill No. 437 of the 152nd General Assembly and Senate Bill No. 169 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 24. This section corrects a punctuation error in the Charter of the Town of Dewey Beach from Senate Bill No. 121 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 25. This section corrects an insertion underlining error in the Charter of the City of Harrington from Senate Bill No. 183 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 26. This section corrects strike-through and underline errors in the Charter of the Town of Houston from Senate Bill No. 171 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 27. This section corrects an insertion underlining error in the Charter of the City of Milford from House Bill No. 146 of the 153rd General Assembly. Section 28. This section corrects an insertion underlining error in the Charter of the Town of Millsboro from House Bill No. 25 of the 153rd General Assembly.
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This Act seeks to address the undue burden placed on individuals who are required to surrender their driver's license due to a medical condition. Under current law, individuals must physically surrender their license, often during already traumatic circumstances, and are then, in some cases, required to purchase a separate identification card to maintain a valid form of ID during the suspension period. This Act allows a medically disqualified individual to retain the individual's physical driver’s license for identification purposes by signing an affidavit acknowledging the individual is prohibited from operating a motor vehicle. This approach balances public safety with compassion, streamlines administrative processes, and eliminates unnecessary costs for affected individuals. This Act also makes technical corrections to existing law to conform to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This Act 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. This requirement to create a discharge plan applies to patients discharged from either in-patient treatment or observation status and must contain all of the following: 1. Aftercare instructions and guidelines and that these instructions and guidelines were explained to the patient, patient’s agent, or patient’s lay caregiver. 2. An assessment of travel distance and time between the primary residence of the patient and the hospital. 3. Verification of reliable transportation between the primary residence of the patient and the hospital. 4. Identification of a back-up hospital or facility at which the patient may obtain labor and delivery services. This Act is modeled on the Women Expansion of Learning and Labor Safety or WELLS Act, H.R. 7830, which was introduced in Congress on March 5, 2026. The WELLS Act is named after Mercedes Wells, a Black woman who was forced to give birth on the side of the road minutes after being discharged from a hospital while in active labor. Under existing law, Chapter 30J of Title 16 provides discharge planning requirements when a patient is being discharged home after admission to a hospital. The requirements under this Act are in addition to, but can be combined with, these existing discharge planning requirements if the patient being discharged is pregnant and experiencing signs or symptoms consistent with labor. This Act also renames and reorganizes Chapter 30J of Title 16 by making existing law Subchapter I and creating a new Subchapter II with the requirements under this Act. As such, this Act makes corresponding changes to existing law to change references to Chapter 30J to the new subchapter.
This Act prohibits state agencies, counties, and municipalities from entering into nondisclosure agreements that would restrict the public from accessing information about potential or actual large-scale data center development in this State. Large-scale data centers, defined in this Act as data centers that use or are capable of using 100 megawatts of power or more, can pose significant challenges for the communities in which they are located. When nondisclosure agreements are used to shield information about proposed or planned data centers from the public, it deprives those communities of the opportunity to understand and respond to issues that directly affect them.
This Act requires that when all or part of the tenant’s rent is paid from a state fund for reentry services, a landlord must assist the tenant in completing a discharge plan to attempt to provide a warm handoff before terminating the tenant’s lease. This Act also closes a loophole in existing law that allows unlicensed or uncertified operators of residential housing to claim exemption from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, including the procedural requirements for an eviction. Existing laws prohibit someone from losing their housing without notice because • A landlord must comply with the notice and judicial procedure under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Part III, Title 25. • Licensed health care providers must provide discharge planning before an individual is required to leave a residential treatment program under § 1127, § 5161, and § 3004J of Title 16. • Certified recovery homes must make a reasonable effort to connect a resident with appropriate services when terminating the resident’s admission agreement under § 2206A of Title 16. Section 1 of this Act closes a loophole in current law that allows some landlords to claim their tenants are excluded under § 5102(1) of Title 25 from the protections required before eviction under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code without being required to provide discharge planning or connecting the resident with appropriate services. This Act revises 3 of the exclusions by using the modern terms and where possible, the applicable licensing law for this State, to prevent housing providers from claiming exclusion from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code even if the provider is not licensed or certified to provide services. This Act does not apply to or revise the exclusions to the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code under paragraphs (4) through (6) of § 5102 of Title 25, including the existing exclusion for certified recovery houses. Section 2 of this Act creates new requirements under § 5512A of Title 25 if all or part of a tenant’s rent is paid using money from a State reentry fund. Before or with the first payment, the person responsible for payments from the fund must provide the landlord with an explanation of these requirements, contact information, and the model discharge plan. The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), in consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), must create a model discharge plan. Then, before terminating the tenant’s lease, the landlord must assist the individual in creating a discharge plan that includes shelter or housing and provide notice that the tenant’s lease is being terminated as follows: • To the person making rent payments from the fund. • If the landlord knows that the tenant is under the supervision of the Department of Correction, to the Department of Correction and the local law enforcement agency. If a landlord fails to comply with the discharge planning and notice requirements, the landlord is debarred from receiving payments from any State reentry fund for 1 year. If the landlord is receiving payments from a State reentry fund for any other tenants, those tenants are not responsible for the share of the rent that was paid by the fund and have the option to do any of the following: • Continue the tenancy without payments from the fund. If the tenant chooses to continue their tenancy, the amount of their rent becomes the tenant’s share of the rent, calculated by subtracting the amount paid by the fund from the total rent under the rental agreement. • Terminate the lease immediately. • Terminate the lease with 30 to 60 days notice. These requirements are enforceable by the Department of Justice and also by the Justice of the Peace Court, because the contents of an eviction complaint must include a brief statement of compliance with the requirements under § 5512A(c) and copies of all required notices. Section 3 of this Act is a technical clarification to clarify that “this Code” and “Landlord-Tenant Code” both refer to the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code under Part III of this title. Both “this Code” and “Landlord-Tenant Code” are used throughout Chapter 51 through Chapter 59 of Title 25 as abbreviations of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code and under § 101 of Title 1, “this Code” could also refer to the entire Delaware Code. Section 4 of this Act makes the new requirements for reentry funds under § 5512A of Title 25 applicable to the rental of single rooms in owner-occupied buildings under § 5512 of Title 25. Section 4 also reorganizes the existing language in § 5512 because as 1 sentence, the current language is difficult to understand. This Act takes effect 6 months after enactment to provide time for DHSS and DOJ to develop the model discharge plan and for agencies, including the Department of Correction and local law enforcement agencies, to develop policies and procedures necessary to implement and respond to notification under these requirements. The new requirements under § 5512A of Title 25 apply to rental agreements entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. This Act is known as “The Grace Peterson Act”.
Maddy summaryThis Delaware bill allows a staff member to attend a virtual meeting from an anchor location instead of a public body member. The change updates the rules for virtual meetings in Title 29 of the Delaware Code to include this specific staffing arrangement. It directly affects public bodies in the state by modifying how they conduct remote sessions. The legislation was passed by both the House and Senate to formalize this procedural adjustment.
This Act clarifies that penalties associated with section 4512 of Title 21, relating to truck parking, are applicable to parking violations in both residence and non-residence districts. This Act further clarifies that truck tractors (with and without attached trailers) may be prohibited from stopping, standing, or parking on highways in the same manner as trailers and semitrailers.
This Act makes it a crime for any person to either cross a marked barrier established by a first responder, or, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, to violate the warning and approach or remain within 25 feet of the first responder, with the intent to do any of the following: (1) Impede or interfere with the first responder’s ability to perform the first responder’s legal duty. (2) Threaten the first responder with physical injury, serious physical injury, or death. For purposes of this Act, a first responder means a law-enforcement officer, volunteer or paid firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or fire police officer.
This Act safeguards elections in this State by strengthening fairness and impartiality in both the conduct of elections and the enforcement of election laws. Election protections are strengthened because this Act updates Title 15 so that the terms and procedures reflect modern vocabulary, technology, and best practices. Most of the revisions in this Act are technical, clarifications, or conform existing law to current practices in regard to determining an individual’s place of residence, requirements for electronic voting system software, performing audits of election results, and adjudicating or curing deficient absentee ballots. Section 1 revises the terms and definitions for Title 15 as follows: • Repeals obsolete terms. • Revises current terms and definitions to accurately reflect the organization of the Department of Elections (Department), the use of electronic voting systems, and conform to drafting standards. • Adds additional defined terms that are already used in Title 15, to provide consistency and clarity in this State’s election laws. Section 1 also codifies how the Department determines residency for purposes of registering to vote and to be a candidate for office in a new § 103 of Title 15. This new section provides that an individual’s place of residence is fixed and is a place that the individual physically inhabits and requires that residence be broadly construed to provide all eligible voters with the opportunity to participate in the democratic process. This section specifically provides for all the following: • An individual’s place of residence when the individual’s sleeping area or place of habitation is not a traditional residence associated with real property. • An individual does not lose their place of residence if the individual intends to return after an absence, such as for education, military service, incarceration, or obtaining or providing medical care. • If an individual maintains possession of the individual’s place of residence, obtaining a secondary residence is not prima facia evidence of a change in residence. • An individual’s residence changes and the individual forms a new residence if the individual inhabits a new location with the intent to remain there indefinitely, registers to vote based on residence at a new location, or votes based on residence at a new location. • How a dispute regarding an individual’s place of residence is determined and appealed. Section 2 updates the requirements for electronic voting systems to incorporate best practices and increase the clarity of these requirements. The increased clarity provides transparency regarding both the Department’s compliance with these requirements and the accuracy of election results. The current requirements were enacted in 2019 (82 Del. Laws, c. 170) to provide a framework to use when the current electronic voting devices were first acquired. These voting devices have now been used in several election cycles so the requirements can be updated to reflect that experience and the ongoing improvements to voting technology. Specifically, these updates: • Transfers Chapter 50A of Title 15 to Chapter 50 of Title 15. • Provide for the designation of the software, which includes the version of that software, that must be installed on voting devices before each statewide general election. • Expands the criteria that must be considered when designating the software that must be used on voting devices, including the experiences of other jurisdictions that have already used the software. The expanded criteria also provides certainty and stability instead of relying on the continued existence of a federal certifying entity. • Requires that no later than July 1 of an odd numbered calendar year, the State Election Commissioner (Commissioner) must designate the software required for the next statewide general election and that this software can be used for elections held during the next 2 years. • Explicitly allows the Commissioner to change the designated version of voting device software if necessary to address a material security flaw in the previously designated software. • Transfers the requirements under § 4508 of Title 15 to § 5010(a)(1)b. of Title 15. • Consolidates notice requirements under § 5010 of Title 15 for when voting devices will be tested and repeals language about party designees that is obsolete because this testing is open to the public. • Revises current law that is confusing or imprecise, including dividing the current audit section into 4 sections. The first audit section, § 5014, provides the audit requirements that are applicable to all audits of elections results (audits). The following 3 sections provide the requirements for audits after elections for specific offices: § 5015 applies to state or county offices, § 5016 applies to City of Wilmington offices, and § 5017 applies to school district elections. • Repeals provisions that unnecessarily repeat requirements in other sections. Section 3 updates § 4972(b) of Title 15 to align with the use of modern scanning devices, to reflect that absentee ballots are the only hand-marked paper ballots that are used in all elections, and to use the updated defined terms in Section 1 of this Act. Section 3 also codifies the current procedure used to adjudicate votes on an absentee ballot if the ballot scanning device is unable to determine the voter’s intent and connects the rules under § 4972(b) with the procedures for tabulating absentee ballots under § 5510 of Title 15. Section 4 revises Chapter 55 of Title 15 to codify the procedures the Department currently follows under Regulation 200 of Title 15 of the Delaware Administrative Code when an absentee ballot is deficient. This procedure requires that the Department indicate on the ballot envelope that the ballot is deficient and to offer the voter an opportunity to cure certain deficiencies before the polls close on the day of the election, allowing the ballot to be counted. Section 4 also revises § 5510(d)(1)b. by adding a reference to the rules for adjudicating absentee ballots under § 4972(b) of Title 15. Sections 5 through 9 of this Act make corresponding changes to other sections in Title 15 to align with the revisions made under Sections 1 and 2 of this Act and modern election practices. Specifically, Section 5 makes corresponding changes to the defined terms regarding candidate residency in § 3114 of Title 15 to align with the revisions under Section 1 of this Act. Section 6 repeals the sentence in § 4508 of Title 15 because it is transferred to § 5010(a)(1)b. of Title 15. Section 7 aligns the language regarding an individual voter’s place of residence in § 4941 of Title 15 with the revisions under Section 1 of this Act. Section 8 revises § 4948 of Title 15, regarding provisional ballots, as follows: • Makes corresponding changes to the defined terms to align with the revisions in Section 1 of this Act. • Makes technical changes to be consistent with existing law, such as clarifying where a different procedure is followed for primary elections and repealing confusing language. • Repeals the requirement that provisional ballots are required when a court orders a polling place to be kept open beyond the normal time for closing so that people voting under that court order can vote for all offices on the ballot. Section 9 revises § 4980 of Title 15 to reference the transferred and revised audit requirements in Chapter 50 of Title 15. Finally, all Sections of this Act include technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
This Act provides that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget must designate 1 or more reserved parking spaces for pregnant persons at certain designated state buildings and facilities. It also prohibits stopping, standing, or parking in the pregnant person’s space. Violations of this Act are exempted from the civil penalty for parking violations that exists in Title 21. This Act takes effect 6 months after its enactment into law. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.