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Votes at a glance: Senate clears slate of bills and resolutions
Summary
The Senate approved a batch of resolutions and bills including ceremonial recognitions and substantive measures on auctions, medical orders, occupational therapist pay parity, corporate-fee adjustments and a snow/ice safety law; roll calls and outcomes are listed.
The Delaware Senate completed a full floor agenda on May 12, recording final roll-call votes on multiple resolutions and bills.
Key outcomes
- Senate concurrent resolution 185 (Charter Schools Week): Passed, 21–0. - House concurrent resolution 1 24 (Educational Support Professionals recognition): Passed, 21–0. - House concurrent resolution 1 27 (Children and Families First recognition): Passed, 21–0. - House substitute 1 for House Bill 370 (DFAC codification, DuPont Cook Financial Responsibility Act): Passed, 21–0. - Senate Bill 141 (allow auctioning of spirits; amendment limiting auctions to 12 per calendar year): Amendment passed 20–1 absent; bill as amended passed 21–0. - Senate Bill 274 (rename DMOST to POLST and related medical-order updates): Passed, 21–0. - House Bill 400 with House Amendment 2 (fee increases administered by Secretary of State): Passed, 15–6 (treated on the floor as three-fifths vote requirement; debate included legal testimony about thresholds). - Senate Bill 279 (align school-based occupational therapists on salary schedule): Passed, 20 yes, 1 absent. - Senate Bill 233 with Senate Amendment 1 (require removal of ice and snow from vehicles, agriculture vehicle exemption added): Amendment and bill passed 21–0.
Why it matters: The docket mixed ceremonial recognitions (schools, educational support professionals, Children and Families First) with substantive business: economic/governance changes (HB 370, HB 400), consumer/alcohol regulation (SB 141), health-care process updates (SB 274), workforce parity (SB 279), and a public-safety measure on snow and ice removal (SB 233). Several measures were uncontroversial and passed unanimously; HB 400 drew the most contested debate and recorded the only significant 'no' votes.
Vote details and provenance: roll-call tallies for each item were recorded by the secretary on the floor; the session transcript contains the roll-call blocks and clerk announcements for each item.
The Senate recessed after completing the agenda and announced committees' schedules for the next day.
