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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION EQUITY OMBUDSPERSON PROGRAM AND THE EDUCATION EQUITY COUNCIL."
+description: "This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, provides oversight to the Equity Ombudsman program, to provide broad review, analysis and recommendations, for the improvement of student equity and outcomes in Delaware’s public education system."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 188"
+citation: "Delaware HB 188 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherae'a Moore"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-02"
+last_action: "2023-09-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55648a2e-e061-41ab-8168-3659bea744cc"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140502"
+source_hash: "bd26ed12ada7e0f1478104c860ec19c9e8496fd1930f2e47d1be4db9a8412bb8"
+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 188 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION EQUITY OMBUDSPERSON PROGRAM AND THE EDUCATION EQUITY COUNCIL.
+
+This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, provides oversight to the Equity Ombudsman program, to provide broad review, analysis and recommendations, for the improvement of student equity and outcomes in Delaware’s public education system.
+
+## 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=140502&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB188)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140686&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 188 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2023-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 188 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-21** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2023-09-11** 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/55648a2e-e061-41ab-8168-3659bea744cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+