---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION."
description: "This Act establishes the ability to grant a waiver for participation in interscholastic sports when a child exercises the right for choice from one school to another school of choice provided the standards for the waiver are met. In addition, this Act takes into consideration a new charter school or newly added grades to a charter school."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 98"
citation: "Delaware HB 98 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "F. Gary Simpson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-28"
last_action: "2017-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a206ec3e-2dcb-455a-a98d-dcdb60d0bbdf"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25544"
source_hash: "00aac87b87231c0ebafb3dd1c7d55b33958184644c74837bb947027106c2d2ee"
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 98 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

This Act establishes the ability to grant a waiver for participation in interscholastic sports when a child exercises the right for choice from one school to another school of choice provided the standards for the waiver are met. In addition, this Act takes into consideration a new charter school or newly added grades to a charter school.

## 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=25544&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB98)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
- F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-03** Amendment HA 1 to HB 98 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-05-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 98 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-05-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2017-07-17** 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/a206ec3e-2dcb-455a-a98d-dcdb60d0bbdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).