---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION AND PURPLE STAR SCHOOLS."
description: "This bill allows schools and school districts to submit an application to the Department of Education to have a school designated as a Purple Star School."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 117"
citation: "Delaware SB 117 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-23"
last_action: "2021-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/347f9a70-5227-450d-a443-a311aee877ac"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68613"
source_hash: "9fa6fcad873db1fd33859b367e4b6e672952ba964c25a6cbe2a7f2e2903cd8db"
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 SB 117 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION AND PURPLE STAR SCHOOLS.

This bill allows schools and school districts to submit an application to the Department of Education to have a school designated as a Purple Star School.

## 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=68613&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB117)
2. **SA 1 to SB 117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68687&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-23** Introduced and Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-05-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 117 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-05-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 12 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-08-10** 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/347f9a70-5227-450d-a443-a311aee877ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).