---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRAINING FOR SCHOOL BOARDS."
description: "This Act requires that members of school boards, including charter school boards, receive training on all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 77"
citation: "Delaware HB 77 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Sean M. Lynn", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4facee83-7ca6-43aa-978a-7419e6dee34d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141952"
source_hash: "045a3bdc87138c26b60758980a1db52f5a5c30d363339038b4fde0ca07ed6df1"
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 77 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRAINING FOR SCHOOL BOARDS.

This Act requires that members of school boards, including charter school boards, receive training on all of the following:

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** 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/4facee83-7ca6-43aa-978a-7419e6dee34d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).