---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER APPRENTICESHIPS."
description: "This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in schools, while the teacher candidates complete the training and schooling necessary to become a Delaware credentialed teacher. This program will complement the Grow Your Own Educator Program and teacher residency programs to create a low-cost pathway for aspiring teachers to earn their teaching credentials and will address the educator shortage in Delaware."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "Delaware HB 138 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Ruth Briggs King", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1210ec0-2df9-4f78-b63f-6740f7424593"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130312"
source_hash: "bf8e3cd81d045a8c6dfba71cb71714d973f59af193e046d3a7fa2e16665f3418"
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 138 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER APPRENTICESHIPS.

This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in schools, while the teacher candidates complete the training and schooling necessary to become a Delaware credentialed teacher. This program will complement the Grow Your Own Educator Program and teacher residency programs to create a low-cost pathway for aspiring teachers to earn their teaching credentials and will address the educator shortage in Delaware.

## 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=130312&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB138)

## Votes

- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-04** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 8 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-13** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-08-23** 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/f1210ec0-2df9-4f78-b63f-6740f7424593`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).