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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION."
+description: "This Act expands eligibility for the Department of Correction's Education Assistance Fund beyond correctional officers to employees who hold a position at paygrade 15 or below and meet the other existing requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 68"
+citation: "Delaware SB 68 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "Bruce C. Ennis", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-26"
+last_action: "2021-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d9fb929-a2de-4b0e-b498-07302f66923e"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48391"
+source_hash: "9ce3f3ac7aba8db501cbb11e9db8b3fd24d27d5131930f04941a14e0fb4be958"
+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 68 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
+
+This Act expands eligibility for the Department of Correction's Education Assistance Fund beyond correctional officers to employees who hold a position at paygrade 15 or below and meet the other existing requirements.
+
+## 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=48391&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB68)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-26** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-24** Assigned to Corrections Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-09-17** 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/8d9fb929-a2de-4b0e-b498-07302f66923e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+