---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION FOR YOUTH WHO HAVE BEEN IN FOSTER CARE."
description: "This Act supports children who spent part or all of their teen years in the State's foster care system to access higher education by providing a tuition waiver program to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and (where offered) room and board at a public Delaware college or university."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Delaware HB 123 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Krista Griffith", "Larry Lambert", "Nicole Poore", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie T. Bolden", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-08"
last_action: "2021-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2a49bb1-7008-4f67-af35-9eec019086e8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78841"
source_hash: "659888d659b0be8f8be706c5a381e081dec5d20cb9f181816af8dcab4920b876"
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 123 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION FOR YOUTH WHO HAVE BEEN IN FOSTER CARE.

This Act supports children who spent part or all of their teen years in the State's foster care system to access higher education by providing a tuition waiver program to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and (where offered) room and board at a public Delaware college or university.

## 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=78841&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB123)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-22** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-10-21** 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/d2a49bb1-7008-4f67-af35-9eec019086e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).