republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-255.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 14 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DONATED LEAVE.	This Act establishes the ability of state and school district employees to use the “donated leave” program to donate and accept annual leave and sick time for use by employees in connection with the birth or adoption of a child under the age of 6 years. An employee becomes eligible to receive such leave upon the birth of a child to the employee or employee’s spouse or upon adoption of a child younger than 6. Such an employee remains eligible for 6 months after such birth or adoption. The recipient may also use donated leave for a period of 1 year following the birth or adoption for absence related to maternal or pediatric medical appointments. Provided, however, that a recipient of donated leave must first use all of his or her accrued sick time and half of his or her annual leave. Where the recipient does not accrue annual leave, the recipient must have used all but 3 of that employee’s sick days prior to utilizing donated leave. All other established terms and conditions for donated leave remain the same.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 255	Delaware HB 255 (149)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Harris B. McDowell Kimberly Williams Margaret Rose Henry Valerie Longhurst	1	8	2	2017-06-22	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/af02a8a4-9c4c-4aff-b8bb-7db25c8db73d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26063	d58be1ac2ea56e0893e27d25decfe2794157df7ee5821c8c4e72e7885592a53c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 255 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 14 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DONATED LEAVE.

This Act establishes the ability of state and school district employees to use the “donated leave” program to donate and accept annual leave and sick time for use by employees in connection with the birth or adoption of a child under the age of 6 years. An employee becomes eligible to receive such leave upon the birth of a child to the employee or employee’s spouse or upon adoption of a child younger than 6. Such an employee remains eligible for 6 months after such birth or adoption. The recipient may also use donated leave for a period of 1 year following the birth or adoption for absence related to maternal or pediatric medical appointments. Provided, however, that a recipient of donated leave must first use all of his or her accrued sick time and half of his or her annual leave. Where the recipient does not accrue annual leave, the recipient must have used all but 3 of that employee’s sick days prior to utilizing donated leave. All other established terms and conditions for donated leave remain the same.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-22 Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 255 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 255 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-27 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 7 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-09-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af02a8a4-9c4c-4aff-b8bb-7db25c8db73d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).