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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS OF THE YEAR."
description: "This Act establishes an Educational Support Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work educational support professionals, such as paraprofessionals, food service workers, custodians, and secretaries do to enhance school communities in Delaware."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 134"
citation: "Delaware HB 134 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-13"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dd0ff30-36bc-49b9-9e92-fae21001129a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25639"
source_hash: "e445235506f03c0748c017b17eb4aec520e95e8618bdb4d47ccf3c81565a0c92"
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 134 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS OF THE YEAR.
This Act establishes an Educational Support Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work educational support professionals, such as paraprofessionals, food service workers, custodians, and secretaries do to enhance school communities in Delaware.
## 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=25639&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB134)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (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 5 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 134 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-01-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-04-24** 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/5dd0ff30-36bc-49b9-9e92-fae21001129a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).