We will work harder, work smarter, and work together, and here’s how.
—Paul Baumbach

Paul serves on five House committees, the Economic Development, Health, Revenue/Finance (for which he serves as Vice-Chair), the Technology, and the Transportation committees. He serves on the Open Space Council, and on the Health Fund Advisory Committee. He has also co-chaired several task forces, on public education, on manufactured housing, on healthcare, and on municipal governments.

With 62 members of the legislature, Paul supports colleagues’ efforts more than he leads. Paul has both led and supported colleagues leading efforts to ensure pregnant persons have the right to abortion if they choose, to protect and expand voting access, to implement common-sense legislation to reduce gun violence, to reform our criminal justice and law enforcement systems, to bring more fairness to our income tax system, to repeal the death penalty, and to legalize/regulate/tax adult-use marijuana.. Paul has led multi-year efforts to introduce and improve a rent justification for residents of manufactured homes, to enable credentialed homebirth midwives to work legally in Delaware, to develop a system for fair taxation by counties when municipalities provide services also provided by the county, and to expand Delaware’s Earned Income Tax Credit system to help the working poor to rise into the middle class. He has helped lead task forces on education, healthcare, and local government cooperation. He led work that has brought affordable healthcare coverage to tens of thousands of Delaware residents.

As State Representative, Paul has worked in concert with State Senator David Sokola and with the City of Newark year after year to improve the condition of community roads through the district. It has taken several years, however our community roads are in good condition. Paul and Senator Sokola also collaborated on multiple projects in city and state parks, including the Fairfield Crest connector trail and the Charles Emerson Bridge, and helped champion the completion of the Tri-Valley Trail in the White Clay Creek State Park which connects the state park trails to those at the county Paper Mill Park. We have also worked with multiple funding sources to address problematic flooding issues throughout the district. This collaboration enables limited dollars to go further, to accomplish more.

Paul has continued working for multiple years on efforts which have not been completed, yet. One such effort is to add the City of Newark to the ‘county seat program’ to provide state money to Newark as it already does to  Wilmington, Dover, and Georgetown, to reflect the sizeable proportion of tax-exempt property in our city. Another is to permit the direct shipment of wine to Delaware residents, as is done in well over 40 other states. Paul is also the Delaware champion to permit medical aid-in-dying to mentally-capable adults with a terminal prognosis. Paul is not short on persistence.

The part of the job that Paul enjoys the most is making a clear difference right here in Newark, with individuals. This can mean helping a resident get their federal disabilities payments restored, helping a resident who lost their job receive their unemployment benefits swiftly, assisting residents qualify for Medicaid, expand the Delaware Medical Marijuana program to cover residents with a terminal illness, to issue a Joint Resolution to recognize PANDAS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and other rare diseases, to deliver tributes for residents who have passed away but during their lives had made significant contributions to our community, to celebrate a couple’s 50th wedding anniversary, to celebrate a resident’s 100th birthday, and to recognize new Eagle Scouts.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN

If you have an issue you care deeply about, please call Paul at (302) 562-4546 or email Paul@PaulBaumbach.com