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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINAL AVERAGE COMPENSATION FOR THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN FOR RECIPIENTS OF CERTAIN AWARDS."
+description: "This Act includes the dollar amount of an Educational Support Professional of the Year award received by a State employee when determining the final average compensation used to compute the State employee's pension."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 55"
+citation: "Delaware HB 55 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-28"
+last_action: "2019-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9562ec52-dce3-4025-bbd4-8fdd9f28c81b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37144"
+source_hash: "3bda83c4e8271a448a94e067bee75bd86dd3b804c9ff0159b73a1a4fcf04c8db"
+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 55 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINAL AVERAGE COMPENSATION FOR THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN FOR RECIPIENTS OF CERTAIN AWARDS.
+
+This Act includes the dollar amount of an Educational Support Professional of the Year award received by a State employee when determining the final average compensation used to compute the State employee's pension.
+
+## 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=37144&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB55)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 15 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2019-03-26** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2019-05-29** 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/9562ec52-dce3-4025-bbd4-8fdd9f28c81b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+