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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FEES FOR EDUCATOR LICENSURE. In 2016, the Legislature provided a reimbursement for teachers employed in Delaware who had to pay the 1-time licensure fee. By using "teacher", we inadvertently excluded specialists including school media specialists, school counselors, school nurses, et cetera. This Bill changes "teacher" to "educator" to include specialists and other educators. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 149 HB 51 Delaware HB 51 (149)
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Delaware HB 51 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FEES FOR EDUCATOR LICENSURE.

In 2016, the Legislature provided a reimbursement for teachers employed in Delaware who had to pay the 1-time licensure fee. By using "teacher", we inadvertently excluded specialists including school media specialists, school counselors, school nurses, et cetera. This Bill changes "teacher" to "educator" to include specialists and other educators.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 400 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 180 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • David P. Sokola — primary (person)
  • Kimberly Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-24 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2017-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 15 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2017-03-23 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
  • 2017-03-28 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2017-04-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
  • 2017-05-18 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f4f001b-143f-47fa-b794-bf4ba0af1ec7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).