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Bill to block use of casual genetic testing passes to House

Katie KazimirGovernment, Headlines

Insurance companies won’t be able to increase life insurance rates based on results from recreational genetic tests if House Bill 286, makes it through the General Assembly and is signed into law. The House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to release the bill, known as the Ericka Byler Act, to the full House for a vote. Under …

A bill would removed a reference to BB guns in the Delaware Code definition of firearms. (Wikimedia photo by Hustvedt)

Senate committee considers updating firearm definition

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday discussed a Republican bill that would change the state’s definition of a firearm to exclude a reference to BB guns and be more in line with the federal definition. The Delaware Code’s definition of a firearm currently “includes any weapon from which a shot, projectile or other object may be discharged by force of …