---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION."
description: "This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Delaware HB 198 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-19"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48487"
source_hash: "96cf7a131623095f839b76b8102976b82e1409f10d5056298466f3f1ed8ccb17"
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 198 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION.

This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience.

## 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=48487&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB198)
2. **HA 1 to HB 198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68614&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **33–7** (pass) · lower
- SM — **16–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-19** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-17** 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/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).