---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT."
description: "This Act requires additional reporting and disclosure related to the use of mechanical restraint and seclusion in public schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 79"
citation: "Delaware HB 79 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fd52b17-3a55-459b-a57d-16a2a09a5766"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141954"
source_hash: "eaa646a1caffcd66b1d3b512b63120d9111169b86c1865bca8350938df4ea113"
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 79 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT.

This Act requires additional reporting and disclosure related to the use of mechanical restraint and seclusion in public schools.

## Version chain

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

1. **HA 2 to HB 79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142132&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **29–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — 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`
- **2025-04-08** Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Stricken in House
- **2025-04-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 8 NO 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-30** 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/7fd52b17-3a55-459b-a57d-16a2a09a5766`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).