---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CHILD CARE ACT."
description: "This Act makes changes to the Delaware Child Care Act to clarify that early education programs run by state or local education agencies are subject to a parallel regulatory and monitoring structure administered by the Office of Child Care Licensing to ensure health, safety, and child development standards are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "Delaware HB 49 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Dave G. Lawson", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6e448f9-b4ad-4697-820f-21a2fc94ffd6"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141941"
source_hash: "34ac98d0126635722983c05c157c3abe9c4321b01c1d01cb82c93b4621251599"
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 49 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CHILD CARE ACT.

This Act makes changes to the Delaware Child Care Act to clarify that early education programs run by state or local education agencies are subject to a parallel regulatory and monitoring structure administered by the Office of Child Care Licensing to ensure health, safety, and child development standards are met.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 49, and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-09-02** 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/a6e448f9-b4ad-4697-820f-21a2fc94ffd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).