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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL FUNDING TRANSPARENCY."
description: "This bill will increase the public transparency of education funding information by directing the Department of Education to:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Delaware SB 172 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Earl G. Jaques Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-04-18"
last_action: "2018-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12877550-8350-4a99-bbd9-50e9f0ceb96a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26486"
source_hash: "42326e7e347401ff7db4f13345daf8e0efe10c7f4956e8a7f4cabd0b7a4fde60"
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 SB 172 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL FUNDING TRANSPARENCY.
This bill will increase the public transparency of education funding information by directing the Department of Education to:
## 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=26486&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB172)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-04-18** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Amendment SA 1 to SB 172 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-05-08** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to SB 172 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-28** Amendment HA 1 to SB 172 - Stricken in House
- **2018-06-28** Amendment HA 2 to SB 172 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-07-01** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-08-29** 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/12877550-8350-4a99-bbd9-50e9f0ceb96a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).