Economy:

• Senator Mantzavinos passed House Bill 104, which allows economic development projects in State-designated high-priority areas to be exempted from certain parts of the Delaware’s Preliminary Land Use Service (PLUS). This will spur investment and help to create good-paying jobs for Delawareans. 

• Senator Mantzavinos served as the Senate Prime Sponsor for House Bill 168 (S2), which creates a short-term rental lodging tax that mirrors the lodging tax for hotels and motels. This creates an even playing field for Delaware businesses.

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Healthcare:

• Senator Mantzavinos sponsored Senate Bill 8 (S2), which protects Delaware patients from a range of unfair debt collection practices for medical debt.

• Senator Mantzavinos also passed Senate Bill 123, which extends existing requirements for reporting abuse, neglect, mistreatment, and medication diversion to licensed adult day care facilities, which will help to protect some of our State’s most vulnerable residents.

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Seniors:

• Senator Mantzavinos chaired the Long-Term Care and Memory Care Task Force and established and chairs the Caucus on Aging, a public forum to foster conversations, identify pressing challenges, and help set priorities related to supporting Delaware’s growing senior population.

• Senator Mantzavinos sponsored landmark legislation to better regulate Delaware’s long-term care facilities. This is the first major reform of Delaware’s long-term care laws in over 20 years. This package strengthens Delaware’s laws and regulations of long-term care facilities to ensure that Delawareans’ loved ones are receiving the quality care that they deserve. This bill package includes:

  • ​Senate Bill 150 (S2): Creates staffing and training requirements for assisted living facilities providing residents dementia care services in secured memory care units.

  • Senate Bill 151 (S1): Requires assisted living facilities that advertise or otherwise represent that the facility provides dementia care services to disclose information about the facility and its dementia care programming.

  • Senate Bill 152: Adds the right to culturally competent care to the enumerated long-term care residents’ rights, and requires that long-term care facility residents are made aware of their rights in a language and format that is accessible.

  • Senate Bill 215: Requires that all long-term care facilities in Delaware are inspected at least every 15 months, and that the statewide average interval for inspections is less than 12 months.

  • Senate Bill 216: Increases civil penalties for violations of the State’s long-term care facilities.

  • House Bill 204: Grants the Department of Health and Social Services the authority to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that provide staff in long-term care facilities.

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Crime:

• Senator Mantzavinos served as the Senate Prime Sponsor for House Bill 317, which requires that all sellers of third-party gift cards display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards and how to report these scams. These notices will help to alert Delawareans of the potential threat and prevent Delawareans from falling victim to these deceitful schemes.