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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRUANCY."
+description: "This Act eliminates the ability of a court to suspend a student’s driving privileges or hunting license for truancy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 438"
+citation: "Delaware HB 438 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles Potter Jr.", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-06-05"
+last_action: "2018-08-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f28abc68-2f24-43dd-8c87-175666ae2827"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26750"
+source_hash: "cf0e70fae225795fdc4649b37e068fbec05f55651963c961462aaa1a20b7b820"
+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 438 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRUANCY.
+
+This Act eliminates the ability of a court to suspend a student’s driving privileges or hunting license for truancy.
+
+## 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=26750&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB438)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **25–15** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2018-08-29** 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/f28abc68-2f24-43dd-8c87-175666ae2827`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+