---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER."
description: "This Act implements the recommendations of the March 2105 Autism Educational Task Force report regarding § 1332 of Title 14, the Program for Children with Autism and its Special Staff. Enacted nearly three decades ago, this law established a network of educational programs initially within a separate school structure known as The Delaware Autism Program (DAP). Today, this network continues as a combination of both separate school programs and within local school district support services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 292"
citation: "Delaware HB 292 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9bf19a0-8cf5-43e8-b7da-b72fe6d45b4c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26225"
source_hash: "c0bdd4b1e85165bf27213d73e7f7bf99784c53900e31864910fba0d6f4989611"
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 292 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.

This Act implements the recommendations of the March 2105 Autism Educational Task Force report regarding § 1332 of Title 14, the Program for Children with Autism and its Special Staff. Enacted nearly three decades ago, this law established a network of educational programs initially within a separate school structure known as The Delaware Autism Program (DAP). Today, this network continues as a combination of both separate school programs and within local school district support services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26225&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB292)

## Votes

- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-27** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-12** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-13** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-08-29** 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/f9bf19a0-8cf5-43e8-b7da-b72fe6d45b4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).