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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CHILD CARE ACT."
+description: "This Act makes changes to the Delaware Child Care Act to clarify that early education programs run by state or local education agencies are subject to a parallel regulatory and monitoring structure administered by the Office of Child Care Licensing to ensure health, safety, and child development standards are met."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "HB 49"
+citation: "Delaware HB 49 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Dave G. Lawson", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-13"
+last_action: "2025-09-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6e448f9-b4ad-4697-820f-21a2fc94ffd6"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141941"
+source_hash: "34ac98d0126635722983c05c157c3abe9c4321b01c1d01cb82c93b4621251599"
+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 49 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CHILD CARE ACT.
+
+This Act makes changes to the Delaware Child Care Act to clarify that early education programs run by state or local education agencies are subject to a parallel regulatory and monitoring structure administered by the Office of Child Care Licensing to ensure health, safety, and child development standards are met.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
+- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-13** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 49, and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-03-25** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2025-09-02** 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/a6e448f9-b4ad-4697-820f-21a2fc94ffd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+