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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STATE HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS FOR VETERANS WHO SERVED DURING IDENTIFIED PERIOD OF WAR OR CONFLICT."
+description: "This bill expands the population of war veterans who are eligible to be awarded a high school diploma."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 230"
+citation: "Delaware HB 230 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr."]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-13"
+last_action: "2017-07-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58a70341-8621-475d-b582-99cec73c84cb"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25953"
+source_hash: "f70609df11620653748803e9fe87662172aa3c8df253f85d511b81fb198a3acb"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 230 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STATE HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS FOR VETERANS WHO SERVED DURING IDENTIFIED PERIOD OF WAR OR CONFLICT.
+
+This bill expands the population of war veterans who are eligible to be awarded a high school diploma.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25953&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB230)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
+- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-13** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-06-27** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-21** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58a70341-8621-475d-b582-99cec73c84cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+