---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD CARE LICENSING."
description: "This Act exempts from state child care licensing requirements a military family child care provider that serves only children eligible for Department of Defense subsidized care that is either located on a military base or federal property, certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Coast Guard, or both."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 121"
citation: "Delaware HB 121 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "David L. Wilson", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Nicole Poore", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Richard G. Collins"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-16"
last_action: "2025-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2145064-b72d-44f2-ba6c-a917c610f822"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142135"
source_hash: "bb3a88d26b093d7135e54efd279fead4015c027978902ec5194a887f8507affc"
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 121 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD CARE LICENSING.

This Act exempts from state child care licensing requirements a military family child care provider that serves only children eligible for Department of Defense subsidized care that is either located on a military base or federal property, certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Coast Guard, or both.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Richard G. Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-16** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Not Worked in Committee
- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-10** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-23** 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/f2145064-b72d-44f2-ba6c-a917c610f822`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).