---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 9, 14, AND 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOLS."
description: "This Act enables Sussex County to use the Voluntary School Assessment (VSA) to address the impact of residential development on school capacity. The following is a summary of the Act’s 3 sections:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Delaware SB 186 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-16"
last_action: "2023-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3ef6ede-3565-4aff-9cf8-aa0315f6f083"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140652"
source_hash: "917631b86e977a2fdb8d1ae4236dc25955b78233df6077c7086f98f9f0f60c4d"
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 SB 186 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 9, 14, AND 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

This Act enables Sussex County to use the Voluntary School Assessment (VSA) to address the impact of residential development on school capacity. The following is a summary of the Act’s 3 sections:

## 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=140652&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB186)

## Votes

- SM — **18–2** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-16** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-09-14** 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/c3ef6ede-3565-4aff-9cf8-aa0315f6f083`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).