---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE TERM OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS."
description: "House Bill No. 92 reduces the term of a member elected to a school board from 5 years to 4 years for members elected after December 31, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 92"
citation: "Delaware HB 92 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04"
last_action: "2021-10-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23174542-eac6-4861-a1af-17ba00fe2bf5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48403"
source_hash: "e459901ebaf2fef1d3c309d8501c94c1e9189ad574a8526d75c2d27bb5275ce1"
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 92 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE TERM OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.

House Bill No. 92 reduces the term of a member elected to a school board from 5 years to 4 years for members elected after December 31, 2021.

## 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=48403&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB92)

## Votes

- SM — **23–18** (pass) · lower
- SM — **12–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 92, and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-10** Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 18 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-10** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NO `passage`
- **2021-10-20** 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/23174542-eac6-4861-a1af-17ba00fe2bf5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).