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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEAL DEBT RESTRICTIONS ON STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES."
+description: "This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 263"
+citation: "Delaware HB 263 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-14"
+last_action: "2024-08-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f2f1e1d-48ac-499a-a126-94d7f0998fe8"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140808"
+source_hash: "20e5144512af83803e7ae4d70f5f76f01cf71f662cfef14b2cb9da3c9c1505ba"
+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 263 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEAL DEBT RESTRICTIONS ON STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
+
+This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
+
+## 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=140808&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB263)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140923&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-14** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 263 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-03-07** Amendment HA 1 to HB 263 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-08-02** 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/5f2f1e1d-48ac-499a-a126-94d7f0998fe8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+