republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-163.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS.	The Delaware Code does not currently contain any explicit direction for public schools relating to school absences for observance of religious holidays. This Act requires schools to excuse a pupil's absence for observance of a religious holiday, and further requires districts and charters to have a policy discouraging teachers from scheduling tests, presentations and the like on days where some students may be absent for a religious holiday. A pupil who does miss a grading event must be allowed to make-up the test or otherwise recover credit. The Department of Education is directed to promulgate rules and regulations relating to implementation of this Act, including a list of holidays on which an absence for religious observance must be excused.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 163	Delaware HB 163 (151)	bill		enacted	Laura V. Sturgeon Madinah Wilson-Anton Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	9	2	2021-04-28	2021-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/634ad987-96e6-4b71-9398-8e7a999227ed	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68637	fae677c9cf37d9b62abb52987677da3412dff2e013091237066e78fdea488f99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 163 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS.

The Delaware Code does not currently contain any explicit direction for public schools relating to school absences for observance of religious holidays. This Act requires schools to excuse a pupil's absence for observance of a religious holiday, and further requires districts and charters to have a policy discouraging teachers from scheduling tests, presentations and the like on days where some students may be absent for a religious holiday. A pupil who does miss a grading event must be allowed to make-up the test or otherwise recover credit. The Department of Education is directed to promulgate rules and regulations relating to implementation of this Act, including a list of holidays on which an absence for religious observance must be excused.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 163 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 17–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-28 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO passage
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 3 NOT VOTING passage
• 2021-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/634ad987-96e6-4b71-9398-8e7a999227ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).