HB64 – Ending Delaware’s Flat Tax for the Wealthy
Currently, Delaware’s income tax system is a hybrid flat tax that favors the wealthy. That is not a surprise givenContinue Reading
House Bill 65 is an immediate COVID 19 relief bill that can help Delawareans impacted by the Pandemic. During theContinue Reading
Currently, Delaware’s income tax system is a hybrid flat tax that favors the wealthy. That is not a surprise givenContinue Reading
House Bill 49 is the Republican response to the state of emergency order that Carney first issued in mid-March and is stillContinue Reading
In our second post looking at which bills the General Assembly must tackle in teh first months of their sessionContinue Reading
As long time readers know, one of the main focuses of Blue Delaware is following legislation in the General Assembly.Continue Reading
House Bill 350 passed the House and Senate today, by votes of 41-0 and 16-5, respectively. The Senate debate wasContinue Reading
House Bill 346, which will allow all eligible voters to cast ballots by mail for any elections held in calendarContinue Reading
Senator Bryan Townsend’s Senate Bill 170 has passed the House unanimously exactly one year after it passed the Senate on JuneContinue Reading
The House today unanimously passed Senate Bill 191, the Amendment to the State Constitution that will prohibit discrimination based onContinue Reading
In 2018, the General Assembly passed House Bill 204, which gave judges the option to release non violent defendants withoutContinue Reading
The Delaware State Senate last week passed Senate Bill 243(S) by a vote of 16-5, which would allow various publicContinue Reading
Another bill that must be passed in the post-Pandemic era is Representative Paul Baumbach’s House Bill 80(S), which would makeContinue Reading
In June 2018, at the end of the session for that year’s General Assembly, the minimum wage was finally raisedContinue Reading
Late last session, State Representative Kim Williams introduced two bills that seek to improve and update minimum wage law inContinue Reading
Another bill that is waiting on the House floor once the General Assembly resumes that would seem to be anContinue Reading
Given that Republican terrorists that gathered in Dover on Friday, and that Republican terrorists have been threatening police officers andContinue Reading
That we need to mandate Holocaust Education shows how far we have fallen. We have forgotten, and we have forgottenContinue Reading
For several years in the 2000’s and the 2010’s, reform minded Democratic Senators and Representatives, along with some younger Republicans,Continue Reading
[Update – the details of the new Republican State Killing Bill of 2020 are below, HB299]. Republican legislators are apparentlyContinue Reading
Senate Bill 215 is one of those bills that, after I see who is sponsoring it, I wonder what theContinue Reading
Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf and Senate President Pro Tem Dave McBride better have spent the last few weeks working on plansContinue Reading
Earlier this year, the House passed a bill by a vote of 33-6-2 that would provide free feminine hygiene products,Continue Reading
Republicans love to introduce Constitutional Amendments that hamstring the government’s ability to raise funds to provide services for their citizens,Continue Reading
While Republicans are seeking multiple ways to reinstate the death penalty so that they can demonstrate how flagrantly false theirContinue Reading