---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARDS."
description: "School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inform each new member of the board of the training obligation. A school board president must also send a letter by January 15 of every year to any school board member who has not fulfilled the training obligation by January 1 following that member’s election or appointment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Delaware HB 312 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael F. Smith", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55decb61-43b2-47b1-9a6b-528cc51d9325"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140949"
source_hash: "3682a6bdc963290887e53ac0f213552e53faa13d2741e1fc53ee8be6d9bcf621"
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 312 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARDS.

School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inform each new member of the board of the training obligation. A school board president must also send a letter by January 15 of every year to any school board member who has not fulfilled the training obligation by January 1 following that member’s election or appointment.

## 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=140949&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB312)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **32–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — 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`
- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-21** Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 9 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`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/55decb61-43b2-47b1-9a6b-528cc51d9325`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).