republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-133.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS.	This bill would create an end date for the special filing deadline created by school board vacancies that arise after the second Friday in February. The new end date for these vacancies would be the first Friday in March. Any vacancies that arise after the first Friday in March would be filled by the remaining members on the School Board for the remainder of the fiscal year.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 133	Delaware HB 133 (149)	bill		enacted	Earl G. Jaques Jr. Nicole Poore	1	5	2	2017-04-13	2017-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/507bea73-41b3-4395-bde4-96437846a8f9	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25638	45c4dbe4238d446e7a1450c54aceae303d699ecb2c1b0055e9f0b9d1444b13da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 133 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS.

This bill would create an end date for the special filing deadline created by school board vacancies that arise after the second Friday in February. The new end date for these vacancies would be the first Friday in March. Any vacancies that arise after the first Friday in March would be filled by the remaining members on the School Board for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-13 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 6 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-08-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/507bea73-41b3-4395-bde4-96437846a8f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).