---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, EVALUATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND PREPARATION PROGRAMS."
description: "This Act does the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 207"
citation: "Delaware HB 207 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherae'a Moore", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-20"
last_action: "2021-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b30c5755-62a4-4364-a467-0a3a75e93e1c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78754"
source_hash: "8139bca891454a671ef37012f446abca11e9470426f14a6ff84799d56d2d7b74"
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 207 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, EVALUATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND PREPARATION PROGRAMS.

This Act does 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=78754&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB207)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-20** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-30** 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/b30c5755-62a4-4364-a467-0a3a75e93e1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).