---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL REGISTRATION."
description: "This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Like Senate Bill 82, this Substitute does all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Delaware SB 82 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-18"
last_action: "2021-10-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ebd95f9-cd24-47c2-a340-62930376a81d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68725"
source_hash: "93a04ebbad613e555dddbc4d267336dbab254c27431bfc6ac0674657f3dfdc6f"
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 82 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL REGISTRATION.

This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Like Senate Bill 82, this Substitute does all of the following:

## 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=68725&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB82)
2. **SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78872&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-18** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 82, and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-09** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-10** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2021-06-10** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-11** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `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/8ebd95f9-cd24-47c2-a340-62930376a81d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).