---
type: "Bill"
title: "ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO IMPROVE SCHOOL-BASED MENTORING AND LITERACY EDUCATION EFFORTS IN DELAWARE."
description: "This Joint Resolution creates a bi-partisan School Mentoring and Literacy Task Force, designed to expand volunteer mentoring and literacy education in Delaware schools ,with a report due on June 1, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HJR 1"
citation: "Delaware HJR 1 (152)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/996d49af-8ddc-4e58-89a4-ba2876a701af"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129978"
source_hash: "59d51d67e429d71f274eaf93f63f6f047854dfa00021b9925331f82f7cd12a51"
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 HJR 1 (152) — ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO IMPROVE SCHOOL-BASED MENTORING AND LITERACY EDUCATION EFFORTS IN DELAWARE.

This Joint Resolution creates a bi-partisan School Mentoring and Literacy Task Force, designed to expand volunteer mentoring and literacy education in Delaware schools ,with a report due on June 1, 2023.

## 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=129978&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HJR1)
2. **HA 1 to HJR 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=130052&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Amendment HA 1 to HJR 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-03-08** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Amendment HA 1 to HJR 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-03-29** 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/996d49af-8ddc-4e58-89a4-ba2876a701af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).