---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TRANSPORTATION."
description: "This Act encourages school districts and charter schools to cooperate to ensure that State appropriations for school transportation are used efficiently by doing the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Delaware SB 166 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laura V. Sturgeon", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-06-18"
last_action: "2019-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e3f85ac-f8a9-4e9e-901d-0724f4ea7524"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47757"
source_hash: "cc2930eb4916e3106972db7e6aefe14426b9ce484594af3e4ce6cc4927ed27c2"
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 SB 166 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TRANSPORTATION.

This Act encourages school districts and charter schools to cooperate to ensure that State appropriations for school transportation are used efficiently by doing the following:

## 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=47757&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB166)
2. **HA 1 to SB 166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47895&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-18** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-20** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SB 166 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2019-06-30** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2019-06-30** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2019-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-08-06** 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/7e3f85ac-f8a9-4e9e-901d-0724f4ea7524`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).