---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES FOR HEALTH CARE AND CHILD CARE FACILITIES."
description: "This Act updates the definition of child care facility to reflect the move of the Office of Child Care Licensing from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to the Department of Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Delaware HB 309 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52a73793-969d-4de3-86c4-cb9253beb0cf"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140946"
source_hash: "14126b501d1060df802e7700f798a7892f472b182337d75bb71973312923f8f8"
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 309 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES FOR HEALTH CARE AND CHILD CARE FACILITIES.

This Act updates the definition of child care facility to reflect the move of the Office of Child Care Licensing from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to the Department 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=140946&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB309)

## Votes

- SM — **31–0** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 10 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-30** 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/52a73793-969d-4de3-86c4-cb9253beb0cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).