LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVETRACKING TRACKING ST ST 151151 GENERAL ASSEMBLY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DSCC SUPPORTED: HB 16: Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) - PASSED Allows recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware personal income taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundable credit of up to 20% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC or a refundable EITC credit of up to 4.5% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC.
HB 200: Clean Water - PASSED Establishes a framework for assessing needs and planning and implementing projects that support Delaware’s efforts to improve the quality of the State’s water supply and waterways.
SB 127: Site Readiness - PASSED Establishes a fund to provide grants, loans or other economic assistance to businesses or public entities that invest in constructing, renovating, or improving infrastructure for sites that will attract new businesses or expand existing businesses within the State to initiate economic development opportunities that will create a significant number of direct, permanent, quality, full-time jobs.
SB 65: Focus on Alternative Skills Training Program (FAST) - PASSED
HB 166: Elevate Delaware - PASSED
Provides payments for tuition and auxiliary expenses, up to $10,000, for individuals to attend an approved non-credit certificate program.
SB 12: Student Excellence Equals Degree Act (SEED) - PASSED Increases eligibility for SEED scholarships and funding for Delaware residents who are not recent high school graduates to attend Delaware Tech.
SB 95: Inspire Scholarship Program PASSED
Provides Delaware students with strong academic credentials and a demonstrated commitment to volunteer public service to receive scholarship monies sufficient to cover the full cost of tuition at Delaware State University.
HB 158: Low Income Tax Credit (LITC) CURRENTLY IN HOUSE REVENUE & FINANCE COMMITTEE
Creates a $500 tax credit applicable to individual personal income taxes for certain lower income, working poor, individuals. In the case of spouses filing a joint return, the tax credit is $1,000. If spouses file their Delaware taxes separately, each spouse with the required income will be entitled to a $500 tax credit.
Provides up to $10,000 in tuition assistance to Delaware residents who have obtained a high school diploma and have enrolled in an approved skills training program.
DSCC MONITORED: HB 205: Delaware EARNS Act - CURRENTLY IN
SB 140: Polystyrene - CURRENTLY IN SENATE
Establishes the Delaware Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (“EARNS”) program to serve as a vehicle through which eligible employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a State-facilitated retirement savings program.
Prohibits the sale of containers, food service products, or packing materials made of expanded polystyrene. Prohibits food establishments and public schools from providing readyto-eat food and beverages in expanded polystyrene containers and limits the use of single-service plastic items in food establishments.
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Jan uar y / Fe b r uar y 2022 | DELAWARE BUSINESS
