---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION."
description: "This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Delaware SB 305 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-16"
last_action: "2024-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b6bdb7e-9112-4a8d-9e1b-6e37d72ba6d4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141411"
source_hash: "64a184a2cead999d1e6e2893e7e5dbc8b431536c15402d21f0b9bbc8ab81551d"
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 305 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows:

## 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=141411&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB305)
2. **SA 1 to SB 305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141492&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **34–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 305 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 305 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-06-12** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2024-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 3 NO 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-30** 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/8b6bdb7e-9112-4a8d-9e1b-6e37d72ba6d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).