---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION EQUITY OMBUDSPERSON PROGRAM AND THE EDUCATION EQUITY COUNCIL."
description: "This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, provides oversight to the Equity Ombudsman program, to provide broad review, analysis and recommendations, for the improvement of student equity and outcomes in Delaware’s public education system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "Delaware HB 188 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherae'a Moore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-02"
last_action: "2023-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55648a2e-e061-41ab-8168-3659bea744cc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140502"
source_hash: "bd26ed12ada7e0f1478104c860ec19c9e8496fd1930f2e47d1be4db9a8412bb8"
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 188 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION EQUITY OMBUDSPERSON PROGRAM AND THE EDUCATION EQUITY COUNCIL.

This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, provides oversight to the Equity Ombudsman program, to provide broad review, analysis and recommendations, for the improvement of student equity and outcomes in Delaware’s public education system.

## 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=140502&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB188)
2. **HA 1 to HB 188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140686&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 188 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 188 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-21** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 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/55648a2e-e061-41ab-8168-3659bea744cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).