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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION."
+description: "This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 198"
+citation: "Delaware HB 198 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-19"
+last_action: "2021-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48487"
+source_hash: "96cf7a131623095f839b76b8102976b82e1409f10d5056298466f3f1ed8ccb17"
+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 198 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION.
+
+This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience.
+
+## 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=48487&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB198)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68614&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **33–7** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **16–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-19** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-04-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
+- **2021-04-29** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
+- **2021-06-17** 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/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+