General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 22, 2025

The Big Story:  Senate To Consider Inspector General Bill Today.

SB 4 (Sturgeon) will pass, likely unanimously.  Bipartisan sponsors in both houses.  Governor has said he supports it.  Unless the Speaker Of The House opposes it, I see little difficulty getting it through the House.

Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report.  Yes, the Speaker’s horrible bill covering up violations by nurses cleared the House Sunset Committee.  No sense voting against it and ending up in the line of fire.

Today is the last Session Day before mark-up of the budget.  General Assembly will be out of session during the next two weeks during the mark-up.  Meaning, we have two fairly long agendas today.

In addition to the IG bill, today’s Senate Agenda features some good criminal justice bills, specifically SS1/SB 10 (Townsend), SB 139 (Pinkney),  and SS1/SB 17 (Townsend). These three bills, along with the IG bill, represent an ambitious and progressive day of work.

Today’s House Agenda, OTOH, seems more like a clearinghouse of relatively minor bills.  HB 119 (Griffith) is an anti-censorship bill pertaining to Delaware libraries.  Other than that, nothing else intrigues me.

Well, that was short and sweet.  Kinda like me.