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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSENT EDUCATION."
+description: "This Act requires that the health education programs presented by the Department of Education include instruction on what it means to \"consent\" in the context of a sexual encounter."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "Delaware SB 78 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-04-18"
+last_action: "2019-09-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69ae2961-61a2-4e6e-b102-4e3becaa474b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47387"
+source_hash: "abc6e29551c1c4428e91737e400e4c1d94026aad29bc2b4b2f38b90ab8d85fcf"
+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 SB 78 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSENT EDUCATION.
+
+This Act requires that the health education programs presented by the Department of Education include instruction on what it means to "consent" in the context of a sexual encounter.
+
+## 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=47387&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB78)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
+- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-04-18** Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2019-06-13** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2019-09-10** 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/69ae2961-61a2-4e6e-b102-4e3becaa474b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+