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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER."
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description: "This Act implements the recommendations of the March 2105 Autism Educational Task Force report regarding § 1332 of Title 14, the Program for Children with Autism and its Special Staff. Enacted nearly three decades ago, this law established a network of educational programs initially within a separate school structure known as The Delaware Autism Program (DAP). Today, this network continues as a combination of both separate school programs and within local school district support services."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "149"
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identifier: "HB 292"
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citation: "Delaware HB 292 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2018-01-04"
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last_action: "2018-08-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9bf19a0-8cf5-43e8-b7da-b72fe6d45b4c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26225"
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source_hash: "c0bdd4b1e85165bf27213d73e7f7bf99784c53900e31864910fba0d6f4989611"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 292 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.
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This Act implements the recommendations of the March 2105 Autism Educational Task Force report regarding § 1332 of Title 14, the Program for Children with Autism and its Special Staff. Enacted nearly three decades ago, this law established a network of educational programs initially within a separate school structure known as The Delaware Autism Program (DAP). Today, this network continues as a combination of both separate school programs and within local school district support services.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26225&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB292)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
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- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-04** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-03-27** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2018-06-12** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2018-06-13** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2018-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2018-08-29** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9bf19a0-8cf5-43e8-b7da-b72fe6d45b4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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