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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 133"
citation: "Delaware HB 133 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Nicole Poore"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-13"
last_action: "2017-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/507bea73-41b3-4395-bde4-96437846a8f9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25638"
source_hash: "45c4dbe4238d446e7a1450c54aceae303d699ecb2c1b0055e9f0b9d1444b13da"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25638&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB133)
## Votes
- SM — **380** (pass) · lower
- SM — **120** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/507bea73-41b3-4395-bde4-96437846a8f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).