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In 2025, Claire sponsored or co-sponsored over 120 bills in the General Assembly, including those she ran on and other pressing matters. Here are some key bills (passed unless otherwise noted): Allowing People Control Over Their Own Bodies and Personal Lives (Reproductive Freedom, LGBTQ+ Rights, and More) SB 5 (pending): “Every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.” SB 100 (pending): “The right to marry is a fundamental right that may not be denied or abridged on the basis of gender or any basis protected under Art. 1, § 21 of the Delaware Constitution, which provides equal protection under the law on account of race, color, national origin, and sex.” SB 83 “amends the long-term care resident’s bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class” and recognizes “domestic partners” in addition to spouses. HB 36 expands and aligns Delaware’s non-discrimination laws. HB 205 “protects all medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State.” HB 140 allows death with dignity by expanding end of life options. HB 119 prohibits book banning for partisan, ideological, or religious reasons by schools and public libraries. HB 48 requires counties and municipalities in Delaware to comply with federal law in providing parking for people with disabilities. Strengthening Democracy in the First State: Early Voting (SB 2), No-Excuse Absentee Voting aka Vote by Mail (SB 3), Same-Day Voter Registration (HB 88), Felony Re-enfranchisement (HB 180), all moved forward (all pending). And we established an Office of the Inspector General (SB 4)! Economic Stability and Affordability HB 241: Requires counties, in the first tax year after a reassessment, to allow taxpayers to pay school taxes via a payment plan. SB 75: This bill prohibits counties from blocking the retail cannabis industry, which is expected to generate an estimated $42 million in tax revenue for Delaware, as well as creating good jobs. SB 325: Budget bill that includes raises for teachers and other state employees, increased money for scholarships, and higher reimbursement rates for Medicaid recipients in long-term care facilities, among other things. HS 1 for HB 91 implements universal free breakfast for public school students. SB 59 and 60 increase the ability of the Public Service Commission to deny rate increases. SB 50 assists low- and moderate-income families with electricity bills and HB 62 limits the times at which power can be cut-off for non-payment. SB 56 and SB 39 increase protections for manufactured home owners. SB 71 establishes a “birthday rule” that allows Medicare recipients to easily switch plans during 60-day window around their birthday, SB 12 provides preauthorization reform, and SB 156 keeps medical debt off credit reports. HB 1 establishes Office of Veterans Affairs, expected to help veterans get the federal benefits to which they are entitled, among other things. SB 21: A bill designed to protect the corporate franchise (which constitutes over 41% of our state budget and is the reason we have no sales tax) and prevent corporations from leaving Delaware en masse, which seems to have worked pretty well (with a few exceptions). Contrary to the rhetoric of opponents, the bill was not written by Elon Musk. Fighting the Rise of Authoritarianism HB 182 ”prohibits law-enforcement agencies from entering into agreements with federal immigration enforcement authorities to enforce immigration violations or share immigration enforcement related data.” HB 153 prohibits “citizen’s arrest” and HB 152 makes impersonation of a federal law enforcement officer a crime in Delaware. |
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Platform
The 2026 midterm elections will soon be upon us, and once again they will be monumental. Claire’s agenda includes a focus on the following:
IN THE FACE OF RISING AUTHORITARIANISM, CLAIRE IS FIGHTING TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOMS AND OUR DEMOCRACY. Sadly, MAGA attacks on women and men, LGBTQ+ individuals, people of color, our undocumented neighbors, and our institutions are turning our country into a place we no longer recognize. We must resist by maintaining due process, protecting rights and liberties, and strengthening the democratic process in Delaware.
AS A CRISIS OF AFFORDABILITY LOOMS, CLAIRE IS WORKING TO STABILIZE AND STRENGTHEN OUR ECONOMY. We need to maintain and diversify our revenue stream, encourage job growth, support small businesses, and look for ways to control healthcare, housing, insurance, and energy costs.
IN THIS TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE, CLAIRE IS STRIVING TO PROTECT OUR QUALITY OF LIFE. Our district is experiencing massive growth, including both retirees and families with children.
Healthcare: Access to high quality healthcare is a challenge across the country, and in Coastal Sussex we face a severe shortage of healthcare providers, including primary care providers, specialists, and dentists, as well as veterinarians. I will work to secure more resources for our district — for mental health programs, substance abuse treatment, long-term care assistance, and services for people with disabilities. I am collaborating with colleagues to figure out ways to attract the providers we need to the district, like establishing licensing reciprocity for providers who want to transfer their practices to Delaware.
In terms of the long game, I support the idea of collaborating with other states to increase the size of our insurance market, which would increase our leverage, and I also support the founding of a medical school in Delaware, preferably in Sussex County, that could help ameliorate the shortage of doctors in our district.
Education: Having spent 20 years in the classroom, I have seen the way education can transform a young person’s life. That is why I will always support students, educators, and public schools. In the Cape Henlopen School District, we have schools that are popping at the seams and in dire need of more resources for students. I believe it is vitally important that we invest more in our public education system, including in vocational education and job training for students who do not plan to attend college.
We need to reform our antiquated school funding process to ensure that it provides adequate and equitable resources to our schools and that the process is transparent, predictable, stable, flexible, and cost-based. The referenda process is not delivering what we need. We must fight to preserve a funding structure that minimizes political influence, while advocating for changes that support student need, reduce class sizes, and address local wealth disparities. In addition, we also need to support educators with higher salaries — which is why we just raised teacher pay in 2025 — and with rock-solid security when it comes to their retirement benefits. Educators do a lot for our children, and they deserve our respect.
The Environment: A lot is on the ballot in 2026, as in 2024, including the future of the planet, and environmental concerns certainly top the list of concerns in Delaware. Sussex County is the lowest lying county in the lowest lying state, and RD 14 is graced with beautiful coastlines and plagued by rapid development — all of which makes us vulnerable to environmental catastrophe, as sea levels rise, weather becomes more extreme, and our coastlines erode. We need to get serious about climate resiliency, strengthen environmental protections, and continue transitioning to sustainable sources of energy, like wind and solar. We also need decisive action to improve the quality of our water and to protect our open spaces and forested land, all of which are threatened by overdevelopment and destructive agricultural practices.