---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION."
description: "Senate Bill No. 78 enhances the qualifications for an individual to serve as a member of a school board or the State Board of Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Delaware SB 78 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Paul S. Baumbach", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-27"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8932bbf1-a8e0-40cb-a10c-dc68cbecfc83"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68618"
source_hash: "5ec52fc61055a7b895499fdaad58fd68460aa9525a6ba7492ae1b1da4b3a82f0"
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 78 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Senate Bill No. 78 enhances the qualifications for an individual to serve as a member of a school board or the State Board of Education.

## 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=68618&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS2forSB78)
2. **SA 1 to SS 2 for SB 78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68701&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **37–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-27** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 78 `introduction`
- **2021-05-13** Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-05-13** Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2021-05-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2021-05-14** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-09-17** 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/8932bbf1-a8e0-40cb-a10c-dc68cbecfc83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).