Legislative wrap
Added to 3/22 file
Minimum wage bill passes Senate
A bill that would increase Delaware's minimum wage passed the Senate March 18 by a 14-7 vote.
Senate Bill 15 would increase Delaware's minimum wage to $10.50 an hour by Jan. 1, 2022, and continue to incrementally increase each year until it reaches $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2025. The current minimum wage is $9.25 an hour.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jack Walsh, D-Stanton, has no Sussex County sponsors. It has been assigned to the House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance and Commerce Committee.
Microbrewery bill moves out of committee
A bill that would allow two or more microbreweries to share brewing equipment as long as the microbreweries maintain separate premises has moved through a house committee.
House Bill 81, sponsored by Rep. Paul Baumbach, D-Newark, and also Sen. Ernie Lopez, R-Lewes, was voted out of the Economic Development/Banking/Insurance and Commerce Committee March 9 and is now on the ready list for consideration in the full House.
Water purification bill awaits action in House
A bill that would create a two-year pilot program to issue grants for installing residential drinking water purification systems awaits action in the House.
House Bill 69 was voted out of the Health and Human Development committee March 10 and is now on the ready list for consideration in the full House.
Sen. Ernie Lopez, R-Lewes, is also a sponsor of the bill.
