Marie Pinkney

Voted for House Bill 310, which takes a business tax break away from very large power users. Delaware gives tax credits and lower fees to firms that build or grow a site and add jobs. A large energy use facility is a site that draws huge amounts of power, such as a data center. The act says those sites no longer count for the tax break. A site can still get it if all of its yearly power comes from clean or nuclear sources in or near Delaware. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 233, which makes very large power users pay their own way. A large energy use facility is a site that draws huge amounts of electricity, such as a data center. Before it can open, state regulators must approve an electric service agreement with the utility. The law says other homes and businesses should not carry the cost or risk of hooking up these sites. Regulators must set a separate rate class for them. Utilities must also write a plan that cuts power to these sites first in an emergency. A site can escape that rule if it builds matching new clean generation. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 348, which lifts the limits on Delaware's electric car rebates. The law used to cap the rebate at $2,500 for an all-electric car and $1,000 for a plug-in hybrid. It also barred any car priced above $50,000. All three limits are gone. The state environment agency now sets the amounts, based on the money it has and on market conditions, and may pay more to households with lower incomes. Businesses, charities, schools, and government bodies can now qualify, and the two-rebate lifetime limit now binds only Delaware residents. The agency can still decide which cars are too costly to qualify. The Delaware Senate passed it 16-5, and it became law.

June 23, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 269, which sets one standard for hooking home power systems to the grid. Joining rooftop solar or a similar system to the utility grid is called interconnection. Power suppliers used to treat a national model set of rules as a guide. They must now adopt that model, within 12 months of each new version. Any departure from it must be approved by the utility's regulator at a public hearing. Regulators may set and enforce deadlines for handling requests, and utilities may charge customers what it costs them to comply. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-5, and it became law.

April 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 210, the Pollution Accountability Act, which raises the price of breaking Delaware's environmental laws. The main daily fine range rises from $1,000 to $10,000 up to $5,000 to $40,000. The fine for a repeat conviction of the same offense within 10 years rises from as much as $1,500 to $5,000 a day. The share of fine money set aside for the Community Environmental Project Fund rises from 25% to 40%. That fund must now favor projects within two miles of the violation. The state may now appeal a ruling on chronic violator status, which only the company could do before. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 70, which requires lead paint checks in older rental homes. A rental unit built before 1978 must be checked by an inspector and certified lead free or lead safe. The certificate goes to the state before a new tenant moves in, and within four years of the start date. The rules start on March 1, 2028 at the latest. A landlord who misses the deadline faces daily fines, but can get more time if no inspector or certified contractor is free, or if the cost would be a serious burden. The state must run a grant and loan program to help pay, and a landlord who takes that help may not raise the rent on that home for three years after the inspection that showed the work was needed. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 105, which makes employers state pay in job ads. It covers employers with 26 or more workers, for Delaware jobs and for remote jobs offered from Delaware. Each ad must give the pay or the pay range, plus a short account of the benefits. A job paid on commission need only say so, and a tipped job must give its base wage. An employer with no ad must tell a job seeker the same thing before any offer or pay talk. A first breach brings a written warning, and later ones bring fines of $500 to $10,000. The rules start two years after the bill became law. The Delaware Senate passed it 16-4, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 105, which makes employers state pay in job ads. It covers employers with 26 or more workers, for Delaware jobs and for remote jobs offered from Delaware. Each ad must give the pay or the pay range, plus a short account of the benefits. A job paid on commission need only say so, and a tipped job must give its base wage. An employer with no ad must tell a job seeker the same thing before any offer or pay talk. A first breach brings a written warning, and later ones bring fines of $500 to $10,000. The rules start two years after the bill became law. The Delaware Senate passed it 16-4, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 24, which lets a public employee union be certified without an election when more than half of the workers in a bargaining unit sign cards choosing it. The labor board must check the signatures and, if a majority signed, certify the union. It covers school employees and other state and local public employees. The Delaware Senate passed it 14-6, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 344, which tightens Delaware's campaign finance rules. Committees must keep records for five years instead of three, starting two years after the rest of the rules take effect. A loan must be put in writing and banked within three business days, and a candidate may not charge interest on a loan to their own campaign. Candidates and treasurers must take campaign finance training every two years. A committee that ignores a late-filing citation for 30 days must stop all campaign finance work until it files and pays, unless it is appealing. The Justice Department's Division of Civil Rights and Public Trust must look into and prosecute breaches, and the rules start on July 1, 2027. The Delaware Senate passed it 16-5, and it became law.

July 1, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 368, which limits how Delaware police work with federal immigration agents. Police may not hold someone just because agents ask them to on a form no judge signed. They may still hold people convicted of a violent felony or of two or more drunk driving charges. The same goes for registered sex offenders and domestic violence offenders. Police may not stop or search a person only over their immigration status. They may not ask about that status unless it bears on a serious crime they are looking into. They may not help with raids, hand people to agents, or warn agents about a release. Police must still enforce state criminal law and obey court orders. Each agency must report once a year to the Attorney General. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 25, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 94, which keeps Delaware police out of federal immigration actions at certain places. The places are schools and other child-serving sites, colleges, places of worship, and health care sites. Police may not help federal agents arrest, detain, or search at those places. The one exception is an urgent risk to someone's safety. Police may still help with criminal immigration cases under a valid court order. When the urgent exception is used, the agency must file a written report within two days. The state must gather those reports and send them to the governor and lawmakers twice a year. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 25, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 23, the Housing for Every Delawarean Act, which pushes local governments to allow more housing. Every county and every town of more than 2,000 people must add an affordable housing plan to its comprehensive plan. The plan works toward a goal of 20% affordable homes. It must raise the number of homes allowed per acre and allow a mix of housing types without a special permit. It must review lot size and height limits, and pick at least five more steps from a list of eleven. A county that does not redraw its zoning map within 12 months must approve an owner's rezoning request that fits the plan. Housing already allowed under local zoning gets a review against set standards instead of a public hearing, and any public comment must be in writing. The Delaware Senate passed it 14-6, and it became law.

June 11, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 91, which makes school breakfast free for every student at schools that serve it. A public school taking part in the federal School Breakfast Program must offer breakfast free to any student, whatever the family earns. The state pays the school the gap between what the federal program already covers and the federal free rate, for one breakfast per student per meal service. Schools already running four named federal programs that make meals free are left out, and the act does not change who gets free lunch. It starts on July 1, 2026. The Delaware Senate passed it 16-5, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 50, which sets up the Delaware Energy Fund to help households pay energy bills. The Sustainable Energy Utility runs the fund. It is open to households earning below 350% of the federal poverty level. Anyone who qualifies for LIHEAP, the federal fuel aid program, is sent there first. People who get help must join energy saving programs, and each application brings one payment, though they may apply again. The bill also sends 30% of certain clean energy payments to LIHEAP and makes a 5% share of carbon auction money for LIHEAP firm rather than a ceiling. The whole act ends three years after it became law. The Delaware Senate passed the final version 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 116, which lets the state approve cheaper power and gas bills for low-income households. The Public Service Commission may now approve a rate 20% below standard home delivery charges. It must first find that the rate serves the public interest. The Department of Health and Social Services checks each year whether a customer qualifies, using benefit programs already tied to income. The customer has to agree to share that information. Utilities can get the cost back through a low-income program fund, and the Commission must review the discount every five years. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 26, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 418, which gives owners of unmarked guns a way to comply with Delaware's ghost gun ban. A ghost gun has no serial number, so it cannot be traced. The act keeps the ban in place. People who legally owned such a gun before the law took effect get six months to act. They must either have a licensed dealer stamp a serial number on it or make it permanently unusable. Getting it back after stamping counts as a transfer and requires a background check. The act also spells out what permanently unusable means. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

July 1, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted against House Bill 427, which lets 16- and 17-year-olds use guns with no adult present. Before this, a person under 21 generally needed direct supervision from someone 21 or older to hold a firearm or other projectile weapon for hunting, target practice, or sport. Some exceptions already existed, such as for shotguns and muzzle-loading rifles. A 16- or 17-year-old may now target shoot alone with a parent's or guardian's permission and a finished hunter education course. They may hunt alone if they also carry a valid Delaware hunting license. Towns may still set rules on where guns are fired. The Delaware Senate passed it 14-6, and it became law.

July 1, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 300, which requires gun dealers in Delaware to hold a state license. The license comes from the Delaware State Police and sits on top of the federal one. It costs $300 at first and $250 to renew. A dealer must fit an alarm and a camera system that records sales and storage areas. Staff must take a course on spotting straw buyers and gun trafficking. Employees must pass background checks, and the state police may inspect the shop. The state must revoke the license of a dealer convicted of a felony or of gun trafficking. The rules apply to sellers who move more than ten guns a year. The Delaware Senate passed it 14-7, and it became law.

June 30, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 369, which puts the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety into state law. The governor set up the office by order in May 2025. A later governor could undo an order, but not a law. The office sits in the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Its director ties together state, county, and city work on gun violence. The director also tells the secretary about problems that keep coming back. State agencies that work on this must help the office. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-4, and it became law.

June 18, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 154, which protects charities and police who give away gun locks. A tax-exempt nonprofit or a law enforcement agency that hands out a new cable lock, trigger lock, or gun safe for free cannot be sued over a fault in the device. That cover applies only if the device is given away unopened in its own packaging and comes with a gun safety pamphlet. The maker, seller, and distributor can still be held to account. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 25, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 82, which makes Delaware's lethal violence protective orders last longer. Under such an order a court makes a person it finds dangerous hand over their guns. The longest an order can run goes from one year up to five years. The person under the order can still ask for a hearing to end it, but now only once a year instead of at any time. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 205, which shields Delaware health care workers from other states' laws. Delaware already covered reproductive health care. The shield now covers any care that is legal here. State licensing boards may not punish a provider for that care, and insurers may not raise their premiums or otherwise punish them for it. A person who loses such a case in another state may sue in Delaware to get the money back, subject to limits such as cases where none of the acts happened here. State and local staff, including police, may not help another state or the federal government look into whether the care was legal, unless federal law requires it. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House Bill 380, which widens Delaware's personal data privacy law. That law gives people rights over data companies hold about them. Before, it covered firms handling data on 35,000 or more Delawareans. The act lowers that to 10,000, so many more firms are covered. For firms that make over a fifth of their money selling data, the line drops from 10,000 to 5,000. Outside companies that receive personal data are now covered too and must follow the contract terms. Banks and insurers keep a narrower exemption than before. The changes start on January 1, 2027. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 16, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for House Bill 368, which limits how Delaware police work with federal immigration agents. Police may not hold someone just because agents ask them to on a form no judge signed. They may still hold people convicted of a violent felony or of two or more drunk driving charges. The same goes for registered sex offenders and domestic violence offenders. Police may not stop or search a person only over their immigration status. They may not ask about that status unless it bears on a serious crime they are looking into. They may not help with raids, hand people to agents, or warn agents about a release. Police must still enforce state criminal law and obey court orders. Each agency must report once a year to the Attorney General. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 25, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 94, which keeps Delaware police out of federal immigration actions at certain places. The places are schools and other child-serving sites, colleges, places of worship, and health care sites. Police may not help federal agents arrest, detain, or search at those places. The one exception is an urgent risk to someone's safety. Police may still help with criminal immigration cases under a valid court order. When the urgent exception is used, the agency must file a written report within two days. The state must gather those reports and send them to the governor and lawmakers twice a year. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 25, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 119, the Freedom to Read Act, which limits when a library can pull material off its shelves. Public libraries may not drop material because of who wrote it, and school libraries may not drop it solely for that reason. Neither may drop it because someone dislikes its politics, ideas, or religion. Each library must write a policy for handling objections. Material stays on the shelf while an objection is reviewed, and staff who follow the rules may not be punished. Delaware's obscenity law still applies. The Delaware Senate passed it 14-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 37, which makes clear that Delaware's ban on discrimination in public places covers the government itself. The old law already listed state agencies, local agencies, and public libraries, but only as part of its definition of a business that serves the public. The new law names them as covered on their own. It also widens coverage from state-funded agencies to anyone the state pays to do public work, and adds anyone doing public work under state or local government supervision. The law still leaves out home sales and rentals, and tourist homes with fewer than 10 rental units. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 36, which lines up Delaware's smaller anti-discrimination rules with its big ones. Delaware bans discrimination in public places, in housing, and at work. But many smaller rules named only a short list of grounds. Each of those rules now also covers every ground the matching big law covers. The act adds gender identity to the stated purpose of the Fair Housing Act. It also brings banks and other firms licensed under Delaware's banking law under the public places rule. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 24, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 310, which takes a business tax break away from very large power users. Delaware gives tax credits and lower fees to firms that build or grow a site and add jobs. A large energy use facility is a site that draws huge amounts of power, such as a data center. The act says those sites no longer count for the tax break. A site can still get it if all of its yearly power comes from clean or nuclear sources in or near Delaware. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 233, which makes very large power users pay their own way. A large energy use facility is a site that draws huge amounts of electricity, such as a data center. Before it can open, state regulators must approve an electric service agreement with the utility. The law says other homes and businesses should not carry the cost or risk of hooking up these sites. Regulators must set a separate rate class for them. Utilities must also write a plan that cuts power to these sites first in an emergency. A site can escape that rule if it builds matching new clean generation. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 30, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted for House Bill 380, which widens Delaware's personal data privacy law. That law gives people rights over data companies hold about them. Before, it covered firms handling data on 35,000 or more Delawareans. The act lowers that to 10,000, so many more firms are covered. For firms that make over a fifth of their money selling data, the line drops from 10,000 to 5,000. Outside companies that receive personal data are now covered too and must follow the contract terms. Banks and insurers keep a narrower exemption than before. The changes start on January 1, 2027. The Delaware Senate passed it 15-6, and it became law.

June 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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