---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BASIC SALARY SCHEDULE FOR SCHOOL-BASED PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS."
description: "This Act provides nationally certified occupational therapists with a salary supplement for receiving national certification. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing language to the standards of the Delaware Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 348"
citation: "Delaware HB 348 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nicole Poore", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-15"
last_action: "2022-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ad826f6-0e78-4705-8d6b-37b1b28ed719"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79232"
source_hash: "fd6d4cd95b01b67ee0cadc8aaf8025c23fe91951b3f57e8307d6dae6db0cc881"
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 348 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BASIC SALARY SCHEDULE FOR SCHOOL-BASED PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS.

This Act provides nationally certified occupational therapists with a salary supplement for receiving national certification. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing language to the standards of the Delaware Drafting Manual.

## 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=79232&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB348)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-15** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-22** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-26** 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/7ad826f6-0e78-4705-8d6b-37b1b28ed719`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).