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The Delaware House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of Delaware. The state House of Representatives is made of 41 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for a two-year term with no term limits. Each member represents an average of 19,112 residents, as of the 2000 Census.[1]

In 2010, the House was in session from January 12th to June 30th.[2]

Sessions

In 2010, the House of Representatives was in session from January 12th to June 30th.

Article II of the Delaware Constitution establishes when the Delaware General Assembly, of which the House is a part, is to be in session. Section 4 of Article II states that the General Assembly is to convene on the second Tuesday of January of each calendar year, and it is not to extend beyond the last day of June.

Section 4 also allows the General Assembly to be convened into special session by the Governor of Delaware or by the mutual call of the presiding officers of both Houses.

Elections

2010

See also: Delaware House of Representatives elections, 2010

Elections for the office of Delaware State House will be held in Delaware on November 2, 2010. Elections will be held in all of Delaware's 41 representative districts.

The primary nomination process for candidates wishing to run in these elections is to gain the party's nomination at state conventions held by the state's two major political parties in May. Candidates wishing to run as independents can submit nominating signatures up through July 30. The primary election day is September 14, 2010.

Qualifications

Article II, Section 3 of the Delaware Constitution states: No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-four years, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the State three years next preceding the day of his election, and the last year of that term an inhabitant of the Representative District in which he shall be chosen, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State.

Vacancies

See also: How vacancies are filled in state legislatures

If there is a vacancy in the State House, the House Speaker must call for a special election. The election must be called for no later than 30 days after the vacancy happened. The Governor may make the declaration if the House is not in session. The date of the election must be set no later than 10 days after a declaration was made[3].

Representatives

Partisan composition

See also: Partisan composition of state houses
Party As of September 2010
     Democratic Party 24
     Republican Party 17
Total 41


Leadership

The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the body. Duties of the Speaker include preserving order and decorum, deciding all questions of order, signing all bills and resolutions passed by the House, and appointing all committees and subcommittees.[4][5]

Position Representative Party
State Speaker of the House Robert Gilligan Democrat
State House Majority Leader Peter Schwartzkopf Democrat
State House Majority Whip Valerie Longhurst Democrat
State House Minority Leader Richard Cathcart Republican
State House Minority Whip Daniel Short Republican


Salaries

See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries

As of 2010, members of the Delaware legislature are paid $41,680 per year. Legislators are allowed a maximum of $7,334 in expenses annually.[6]

The $41,680 that Delaware legislators are paid as of 2010 is a decrease from the $42,000 that they were paid during legislative sessions in 2007. Delaware legislators received no per diem in 2007.[7]

When sworn in

See also: When state legislators assume office after a general election

Delaware legislators assume office the day after their election.

Current members

District Representative Party Residence
1 Dennis P. Williams Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Wilmington
2 Hazel Plant Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Wilmington
3 Helene Keeley Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Wilmington
4 Gerald Brady Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Wilmington
5 Melanie Marshall Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Newark
6 Thomas Kovach Image:Reddot.png Republican Fox Point
7 Bryon Short Image:Bluedot.png Democrat
8 S. Quinton Johnson Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Middletown
9 Richard Cathcart Image:Reddot.png Republican Middletown
10 Dennis E. Williams Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Talleyville
11 Gregory Lavelle Image:Reddot.png Republican Sharpley
12 Deborah Hudson Image:Reddot.png Republican Fairthorne
13 John Mitchell, Jr. Image:Bluedot.png Democrat
14 Peter Schwartzkopf Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Rehoboth
15 Valerie Longhurst Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Bear
16 James Johnson Image:Bluedot.png Democrat
17 Michael Mulrooney Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Pennwood
18 Michael Barbieri Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Newark
19 Robert Gilligan Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Sherwood Park
20 Nick Manolakos Image:Reddot.png Republican
21 Michael Ramone Image:Reddot.png Republican Drummond Hill
22 Joseph Miro Image:Reddot.png Republican Pike Creek Valley
23 Teresa Schooley Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Newark
24 William Oberle, Jr. Image:Reddot.png Republican Beechers Lot
25 John Kowalko, Jr. Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Newark
26 John Viola Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Newark
27 Earl Jaques, Jr. Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Glasgow
28 William Carson, Jr. Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Smyrna
29 Pamela Thornburg Image:Reddot.png Republican Dover
30 William Outten Image:Reddot.png Republican Harrington
31 Darryl Scott Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Dover
32 E. Bradford Bennett Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Dover
33 Robert Walls Image:Bluedot.png Democrat
34 Donald Blakey Image:Reddot.png Republican
35 David Wilson Image:Reddot.png Republican Bridgeville
36 V. George Carey Image:Reddot.png Republican Milford
37 Ruth Briggs King Image:Reddot.png Republican
38 Gerald Hocker Image:Reddot.png Republican Ocean View
39 Daniel Short Image:Reddot.png Republican Seaford
40 Clifford Lee Image:Reddot.png Republican Laurel
41 John Atkins Image:Bluedot.png Democrat Millsboro

Standing committees

External links

References

  1. ↑ Population in 2000 of the American states
  2. ↑ 2010 session dates for Delaware legislature
  3. ↑ Delaware Legislature "Delaware Election Code"(Referenced Statutes § 7101 and § 7104, Delaware Code)
  4. ↑ Rules of the 145th Delaware General Assembly
  5. ↑ Delaware House Leaders
  6. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2010 Legislator Compensation Data"
  7. ↑ Empire Center, "Legislative Salaries Per State as of 2007"
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