Spiros for state senate

progressive leadership with
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ISSUES

Business and economic development

Worked to cut unemployment taxes and keep small businesses alive during the pandemic, while making sure our neighbors were able to earn a living wage.

Creating Jobs

As the chair of the Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee, Spiros has worked tirelessly to make Delaware a fair environment for businesses. To help attract new employers to Delaware, Spiros passed House Bill 104, which allows economic development projects in high-priority areas to,. This will spur investment and help to create good-paying jobs for Delawareans. Spiros also 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.

Healthcare, Medical Debt & Social Services

Helped to make Delaware the 12th state with Paid Family and Medical Leave, cut prescription drug prices, expanded women’s reproductive health services, and held pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in the opioid crisis.

Affordable Healthcare

Medical Debt

Spiros is protecting Delawareans from unfair practices. Inspired by a story from a hardworking constituent who, despite his best efforts, struggled to repay his medical debt, Senate Bill 8 (S2) protects Delaware patients from a range of unfair debt collection practices for medical debt.

Abortion & Reproduction Rights

Spiros supports a woman’s right to choose and does not believe the government should be in the business of controlling women’s bodies. Abortion should be safe and legal.  Period. Full stop.
  • As reproductive rights remain under threat at the federal level, we are taking steps to enshrine a woman’s right to choose in Delaware’s constitution.
  • Protected access to emergency contraception for Delawareans.

Education

Helped more students earn a debt-free education from UD, DSU, DelTech or a nearby trade school, directed the most help to the K-12 students in need of the most support, and expanded mental health services to more Delaware schools.

Public Education 

Seniors

Since being elected to office, Spiros has been laser focused on improving quality of life for Delaware’s seniors. Spiros 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.

Building on the findings and recommendations of the Task Force and Caucus, Spiros sponsored landmark legislation to better regulate Delaware’s long-term care facilities. This is the first major reform of Delaware’slong-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
  • Senate Bill 151 (S): 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
  • 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
  • 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

Spiros also passed laws to protect older Delawareans from abuse and exploitation. Senate Bill 123 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. He also 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.

Spiros will continue to fight for Delawareans by supporting Delaware’s economy, and making sure that our older residents are able to healthily age in place with dignity.

Public Safety

Passed legislation to keep violent criminals from getting back on the streets, while making sure poverty is not being criminalized and supported the largest common sense gun safety package in a generation to reduce gun crime in our communities and address the wave of mass shootings taking place across the country.

Energy & Environment

Supported legislation to reduce Delaware’s reliance on fossil fuels and increase our use of renewable energy, directed more funding to our state’s beautiful park system, reduced the amount of plastic waste in greenspaces and waterways, and protected our farmlands and open spaces.

We have a moral responsibility to protect our most precious natural resources, while ensuring we can attract economic growth and control energy costs for hard-working Delawareans.
  • Together, we have required that Delmarva Power and other powerful utilities to meet a higher standard of need when it brings proposed rate increases before the Public Service Commission.
  • Reformed the State Energy Office to focus more long-term on energy production capacity in Delaware.
  • Supported efforts to increase and diversify Delaware’s power production, including off-shore wind and studying the potential of community-scale nuclear.

Labor

Working families are the backbone of our economy and we are stronger when the middle class can get ahead. That’s why we’ve prioritized policies that raise wages, expanded benefits, and protected collective bargaining.

  • Beginning in 2026, Delawareans working for large- and medium-sized employers became eligible for Paid Family and Medical Leave, because nobody should ever have to choose between keeping their job and starting a family or caring for loved ones.
  • Supporting legislation to create Project Labor Agreements on new school construction and other large-scale state-financed infrastructure projects. This will ensure a diverse workforce of licensed Delaware contractors will be working on the projects we are paying for with taxpayer dollars.
  • Passing card check legislation it easier for workers to unionize and harder for employers to union bust.

Veterans

Exempted military pensions from the state income tax and allowed school districts to exempt disabled veterans from school taxes, protected seniors from age discrimination in the workplace, required medical professionals to get more training in memory care, and I formed the Aging-in-Place Working Group to study the issues faced by Delaware’s growing population of seniors.

  • Military pension bill
  • Creating Department of Veterans Affairs
  • “During the 2025 legislative session, I had the opportunity to partner with my wonderful colleague @Rep. Short to advocate for the Delaware National Guard tuition assistance program by removing upfront tuition costs. This legislation makes education more accessible to our deserving National Guard members, and ensures they are supported as they seek secondary education. Thank you to all who were involved in getting this bill across the finish line, and thank you to the service members who attended today’s signing. “

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