---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND."
description: "Delaware's statewide community college system, operated by Delaware Technical and Community College (“the College”), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development, vocational training, and transfer education that connects Delawareans with good paying jobs within the State and region."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "Delaware SB 50 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Harris B. McDowell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-23"
last_action: "2019-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2dd26803-ef6e-4077-9f33-01bdce5cfaae"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47261"
source_hash: "50a5b5a08c60e68b4921026fb1e53e8e0aa074fa943ef19ab0fdbdb4761ab7e7"
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 50 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.

Delaware's statewide community college system, operated by Delaware Technical and Community College (“the College”), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development, vocational training, and transfer education that connects Delawareans with good paying jobs within the State and region.

## 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=47261&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS2)

## Votes

- SM — **19–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-23** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 50 `introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2019-03-27** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Amendment HA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-11** Amendment HA 1 to SS 2 - Defeated By House. Votes: 11 YES 29 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2019-04-11** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES `passage`
- **2019-05-16** 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/2dd26803-ef6e-4077-9f33-01bdce5cfaae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).