---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS."
description: "This Act aligns state special education law with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and its implementing regulations, and also clarifies that a parent’s representative may obtain copies of a student’s special education records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 11"
citation: "Delaware HB 11 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/672c750d-8369-4894-bc2c-005834a41337"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141803"
source_hash: "84a5be2ed97bde918c04c8f8d54244ddec9f8d9fc1b9d6ac7e5bb36782a2792c"
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 11 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS.

This Act aligns state special education law with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and its implementing regulations, and also clarifies that a parent’s representative may obtain copies of a student’s special education records.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- SM — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 14 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-04-14** 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/672c750d-8369-4894-bc2c-005834a41337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).