During the 153rd Delaware General Assembly (which includes 2025 and 2026), I passed 34 bills and binding resolutions—the second-highest number out of all 41 representatives. Below, please find information about the legislation I passed during 2026, the second leg of the 153rd Delaware General Assembly, and some other information.

Legislation

• HB 84 prevents employers from requiring employees to attend meetings regarding political and religious matters and unionizing. Such “captive audience” legislation is largely focused on preventing employers from requiring employees to attend “union-busting” meetings.

• HB 89 establishes, through the Delaware Consumer Fraud Protection Program, a mandatory mediation process when consumers file a complaint against a home contractor. If a contractor refuses to participate in good faith in the process, or if fraud is revealed, they can be charged under the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act and/or have their contractor license revoked.

• HB 253 allows Delaware’s Registers of Wills, at their discretion, to permit individuals with felonies on their records to serve as executors of wills. This is current practice for Delaware’s Registers of Wills but currently, they must go through the courts for this.

• HB 254 updates the name of the Division of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion to the Division of People and Culture, signifying a broader, more comprehensive approach to cultivating an inclusive and engaging workplace and underscoring a focus on overall employee experience, organizational culture, and people-centered initiatives.

• HB 256 requires school and college/university ID cards to include certain helpful crisis text/phone numbers, including resources regarding mental health, suicide, bullying, and dating/domestic violence.

• HB 291 prevents the Department of Corrections from entering into contracts with for-profit companies for inmate labor.

• HB 293 allows hate crime victims to access Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program funding.

• HB 299 reduces the payout restriction of life insurance policies for individuals who die by suicide from two years to one year.

• HB 301 extends to voters, campaign volunteers, the Department of Elections, and the Board of Canvass, protection against and penalties for violence or threats of violence at or near polling places or meetings of the department or the board. HB 301 also covers hindering, controlling, coercing, or intimidating any voter from exercising their right to vote.

• HB 326 increases the penalty for theft when the perpetrator impersonates a family member.

• HB 333, for the probate process, updates the “small estate” threshold from $30,000 to $50,000, helping expedite the process for Delawareans with small estates.

• HB 344 addresses various campaign finance issues, including required training for treasurers and candidates, setting standards for personal loans, disallowing negative account balances, extending record retention requirements, and shutting down candidates’ accounts if they fail to file or fall too far behind on filing reports or paying late fees.

• HB 346 significantly overhauls and modernizes Delaware code related to STDs and STIs, which has not been updated substantially since the 1980s. Updated code will better reflect current Department of Public Health regulations and disallow practices such as forced testing, treatment, quarantine, and specimen-taking from pregnant women, and having individuals face legal charges and prison time if they do not agree to testing or treatment.

• HB 355, the Speak Your Truth Act, helps protect sexual assault survivors from frivolous defamation lawsuits filed by their abusers, lawsuits meant to silence and shame them and other victims. If the accuser prevails against the accused in such lawsuits, HB 355 allows them to collect attorney’s fees and monetary damages deemed reasonable by the court. Also, HB 355 protects as free speech accusers’ public accusations and communications if they are made in good faith.

• HB 388 establishes that when drivers temporarily lose their license due to a medical condition, they no longer must turn in their license at a DMV location, pay to get an ID card, and when they are cleared to drive again, pay to get another license. Per HB 388, such drivers can sign (in person or electronically) an affidavit acknowledging they are prohibited from operating a motor vehicle and keep their license for ID purposes. (If such a driver is pulled over by police, running their license will flag that it has been revoked, and they should not be driving.)

• HB 390 allows DelDOT and its agencies, at their discretion, to determine the methodology used for a project’s bid submissions, including limiting a project’s bidding solely to electronic submissions (unless the RFP is under $500,00, in which case they must always accept paper submissions in addition to electronic submissions).

• HCR 151 establishes the Property Tax Relief & Modernization Working Group to examine potential long-term reforms to Delaware’s property tax system, including targeted relief programs for property owners. The working group must submit recommendations and draft legislative language for consideration for next year’s legislative session.

• SB 264 is the first leg of a constitutional amendment mandating a special election for the office of Lieutenant Governor when the position is vacated. Currently, if the office is vacated, no succession plan exists. SB 264 requires that the Governor issue a “writ of election” to hold a special election within 10 days of vacancy.

• SJR 18 designates August 31, 2026, as International Overdose Awareness Day in Delaware and requires state flags to be flown at half-staff in observance of and to honor those whose lives have been taken by overdose and the individuals and families who love them.

Funding Secured

• Earlier this year, federal funding was cut completely for the Delaware Deaf Mentoring Program, the only Delaware resource for parents with deaf and hard-of-hearing (DAHH) newborns. Without state funding, the program would have been shut down. Working with advocates from Delaware’s DAHH community, I secured double the amount of the program’s former federal funding. Not only can the program continue, but it can expand to maximize vital support for Delaware parents of DAHH children.

• For years, I have known of the wonderful work of the United Way of Delaware Pride Council in terms of supporting Delaware LGBTQ+ youth. They hold events and provide programming for Delaware LGBTQ+ youth, assist schools’ gay-straight alliances (GSAs), and run a mentoring program for LGBTQ+ youth. I secured $90,000 for the council so they can hire someone full-time to run the program and expand its services.

• As I do each year, I ensured that the SFY 2027 state budget included funding for the Delaware Prescription Assistance Program (DPAP). For seniors who financially qualify, the program pays for prescriptions and/or part or all of their monthly Medicare Part D prescription drug plan premiums. Two years before I was in office, funding for this program was cut. There was a tragic, much-publicized double suicide in which the senior couple left a note that they were taking their lives because DPAP was cut and they could no longer afford their medications. That must never happen again.

Committees, etc.

• Transportation (Chair)
• Elections & Government Affairs (Vice-Chair)
• Education
• Health & Human Development
• Labor
• Corrections
• Veterans Affairs
• Special Committee on Property Reassessment
• Governor’s Election Security Task Force