---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR CHILD-SERVING ENTITIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS."
description: "This Act allows the State Bureau of Identification to release subsequent arrest notifications to the Department of Education for its employees and contractors. This Act also corrects existing typos in § 309 of Title 31 and makes clarifying changes to the processing of background checks when the Department of Education is the employer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 181"
citation: "Delaware HB 181 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a2b2351-f6f6-436b-ae50-22a778f886c2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140490"
source_hash: "f99151a5b968ec5ddc6cf9e2b282b39f380430beae317c09c109cf5fdc1bc946"
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 181 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR CHILD-SERVING ENTITIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

This Act allows the State Bureau of Identification to release subsequent arrest notifications to the Department of Education for its employees and contractors. This Act also corrects existing typos in § 309 of Title 31 and makes clarifying changes to the processing of background checks when the Department of Education is the employer.

## 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=140490&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB181)

## Votes

- 3/4 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-20** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-09-11** 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/3a2b2351-f6f6-436b-ae50-22a778f886c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).