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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSED, DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN."
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description: "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."
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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: "SB 86"
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citation: "Delaware SB 86 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "Kimberly Williams", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Melanie George Smith"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-05-22"
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last_action: "2017-07-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c8f56df-e42f-44c6-8a91-1363f48e288b"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25810"
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source_hash: "c628a0c58ce748544c41e1eeb0172a33bd6c581f257ae1e4457390f09be7df18"
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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 SB 86 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSED, DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN.
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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.
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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=25810&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB86)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
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- Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
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- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-05-22** Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2017-06-09** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-13** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2017-07-21** 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/2c8f56df-e42f-44c6-8a91-1363f48e288b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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