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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSED, DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. This Act authorizes the Family Court to appoint an education decision maker for abused, dependent, neglected, and delinquent children and children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families under Chapter 25 of Title 13 to assist with education stability, discipline, and other education issues when a parent or guardian is unavailable or unable to make such decisions or consents to the appointment. This Act does not supplant the educational surrogate parent program under § 3132 of Title 14. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 149 SB 86 Delaware SB 86 (149)
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Earl G. Jaques Jr.
Kimberly Williams
Margaret Rose Henry
Melanie George Smith
1 8 2 2017-05-22 2017-07-21 openstates ocd-bill/2c8f56df-e42f-44c6-8a91-1363f48e288b https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25810 c628a0c58ce748544c41e1eeb0172a33bd6c581f257ae1e4457390f09be7df18 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Delaware SB 86 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSED, DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN.

This Act authorizes the Family Court to appoint an education decision maker for abused, dependent, neglected, and delinquent children and children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families under Chapter 25 of Title 13 to assist with education stability, discipline, and other education issues when a parent or guardian is unavailable or unable to make such decisions or consents to the appointment. This Act does not supplant the educational surrogate parent program under § 3132 of Title 14.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper
  • SM — 410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • David P. Sokola — primary (person)
  • Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
  • Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
  • Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
  • Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
  • Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
  • Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
  • David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
  • Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
  • Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-05-22 Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2017-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2017-06-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2017-06-09 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2017-06-13 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2017-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c8f56df-e42f-44c6-8a91-1363f48e288b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).