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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. | This bill creates a requirement that all public high schools, including charter schools, shall offer at least one computer science course at the high school level by the 2020-2021 school year. Also, this bill creates a requirement that, by the 2018-2019 school year, a computer science course may satisfy one year of the total credit requirement in mathematics, excluding Algebra I, Geometry, or Algebra II or the equivalent courses. The State Board of Education shall develop guidelines addressing how computer science courses can satisfy graduation requirements. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 149 | HB 15 | Delaware HB 15 (149) |
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1 | 10 | 3 | 2017-01-05 | 2017-09-22 | openstates | ocd-bill/1b1b2451-855a-4574-a6f4-dc2186e769a6 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25346 | 0f6f65520c7d7b9eb253ec001be6de022e8708b9a440bff13b4826a1cb0df6bc | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 15 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND COMPUTER SCIENCE.
This bill creates a requirement that all public high schools, including charter schools, shall offer at least one computer science course at the high school level by the 2020-2021 school year. Also, this bill creates a requirement that, by the 2018-2019 school year, a computer science course may satisfy one year of the total credit requirement in mathematics, excluding Algebra I, Geometry, or Algebra II or the equivalent courses. The State Board of Education shall develop guidelines addressing how computer science courses can satisfy graduation requirements.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 12–5 (pass) · upper
- SM — 39–1 (pass) · lower
- SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-05 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2017-01-18 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2017-01-24 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
passage - 2017-01-24 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2017-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable
committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable - 2017-03-28 Amendment SA 1 to HB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
amendment-introduction - 2017-03-29 Amendment SA 1 to HB 15 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 1 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT
amendment-passage - 2017-03-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 5 NO 4 ABSENT
passage - 2017-04-04 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT
passage - 2017-09-22 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b1b2451-855a-4574-a6f4-dc2186e769a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).