---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINAL AVERAGE COMPENSATION FOR THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN FOR RECIPIENTS OF CERTAIN AWARDS."
description: "This Act includes the dollar amount of an Educational Support Professional of the Year award received by a State employee when determining the final average compensation used to compute the State employee's pension."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Delaware HB 55 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9562ec52-dce3-4025-bbd4-8fdd9f28c81b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37144"
source_hash: "3bda83c4e8271a448a94e067bee75bd86dd3b804c9ff0159b73a1a4fcf04c8db"
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 55 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINAL AVERAGE COMPENSATION FOR THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN FOR RECIPIENTS OF CERTAIN AWARDS.

This Act includes the dollar amount of an Educational Support Professional of the Year award received by a State employee when determining the final average compensation used to compute the State employee's pension.

## 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=37144&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB55)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 15 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-05-29** 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/9562ec52-dce3-4025-bbd4-8fdd9f28c81b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).