---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS."
description: "This Act changes the current evaluation system for all teachers from the former Delaware Performance Appraisal System II evaluation to a new Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System. The goal of this new evaluation system is to build a culture of professionalism and learning within every school by converting the evaluation system from a teacher-focused to a learning-focused system. It also increases accountability by requiring a beginning, middle and end of the year review of both the teacher’s professional learning goals and student improvement goals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 133"
citation: "Delaware HB 133 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Eric Morrison", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael F. Smith", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherae'a Moore", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f76fa5c7-0270-49ef-8336-cd0aad578d61"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48415"
source_hash: "c17c3a3549da4ad802c84d425519f24f4013608b520d537ffd85223797aa7564"
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 133 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS.

This Act changes the current evaluation system for all teachers from the former Delaware Performance Appraisal System II evaluation to a new Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System. The goal of this new evaluation system is to build a culture of professionalism and learning within every school by converting the evaluation system from a teacher-focused to a learning-focused system. It also increases accountability by requiring a beginning, middle and end of the year review of both the teacher’s professional learning goals and student improvement goals.

## 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=48415&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB133)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-23** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-08-04** 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/f76fa5c7-0270-49ef-8336-cd0aad578d61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).