Two constitutional amendments aiming to expand early in-person voting and no-excuse absentee voting have cleared both chambers and now await the governor’s signature, with re-approval required in the next General Assembly.

In addition to voting reforms, a slate of bills targets governance changes, including HB65 (April primary), HB180 (removing outdated voting restrictions), HB188 (independents voting in primaries), HB317 (audit of automatic voter registrations), and HB344 (tightening campaign-finance documentation).

Lawmakers are also weighing broader constitutional amendments and governance measures such as expanding collective bargaining, clarifying voting rights, raising thresholds to suspend rules, and considering amendments that would require statewide referendums, alongside parking and amendment publication rules.

Housing and local-control battles continue, including local affordable-housing plans and expanded statewide accessory dwelling units, with debates over county rules on marijuana establishments and veto dynamics across chambers.

Specific governance-focused bills include HB234 to expand collective bargaining, HB239 to require a 3/5 vote to suspend rules, HB430 to limit voting to natural persons, and HB440 to allow amendments to pass via statewide referendum with a 55% threshold.

Immigration policy proposals seek to curb state and local cooperation with federal authorities, restricting data disclosures, school and courthouse protections, and reporting on federal information requests, with a measure on private detention facilities signed into law in May.

Related immigration measures limit DMV data disclosures, cap federal aid-driven resource use in schools, and impose quarterly reporting on federal information requests, with a separate provision restricting private detention facilities already enacted.

Parental-rights and gender-policy debates remain heated, featuring stalled or committee-passed proposals on minors’ abortion consent, bans on gender-transition surgeries, and arguments over girls’ sports fairness and gender designation on vital records.

Notable measures include HB46 on parental consent for minors seeking abortions, SB55 restricting gender-transition procedures, SB215 on girls’ sports fairness, with additional bills updating gender markings on vital records and recognizing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right under SS2 for SB100.

Energy policy shows a split stance on renewable mandates and EV policy, with bills considering rollback or expansion of mandates, changes to EV rebates, regional climate program membership, data-center rules, and a bipartisan provision allowing electric cooperatives to decline service to large industrial users, some of which has been signed into law.

Education policy advances include reading-proficiency reporting, a Title IX coordinator role impacting athletics, discipline-policy reforms toward positive environments, cellphone-use rules in schools, and funding-model reforms to address disparities.

As the session nears its end, Delaware’s 153rd General Assembly faces a tight timeline to pass a broad package of bills across taxes, elections, guns, immigration, health care, education, housing, and governance, with any unpassed measures dying unless reintroduced next year.