---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION."
description: "This Act expands the period in which an ARTC program participant must meet the program requirements to obtain standard certification from 2 years to 3 years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 313"
citation: "Delaware SB 313 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Sherae'a Moore"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1987364-44a9-4f86-95b3-ed2731cffa11"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109567"
source_hash: "132f40efb8718facc3ea4add11661d8074f163c3d1fa9c9ca52da1fc37c0a867"
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 313 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION.

This Act expands the period in which an ARTC program participant must meet the program requirements to obtain standard certification from 2 years to 3 years.

## 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=109567&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB313)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-10** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-04** 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/a1987364-44a9-4f86-95b3-ed2731cffa11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).