republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-173.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION ENROLLMENT OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS.	This Act allows the parent or guardian of a military-connected student to preliminarily enroll the student by remote registration in a school district where the parent or guardian is in the active military of the United States or in full-time status during active service with a force of the Delaware National Guard, if the parent or guardian is being transferred to Delaware under military orders and is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Delaware.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 173	Delaware HB 173 (151)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Kyle Evans Gay Michael F. Smith Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha William Bush	2	9	2	2021-05-06	2021-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/1d5a6e60-6d06-4283-8bc3-e934d8a9a157	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68660	9a463d5f4c8a83718178f5d23b6cb15c6a51b1f233e8bea25a1e2b54619f7cb8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 173 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION ENROLLMENT OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS.

This Act allows the parent or guardian of a military-connected student to preliminarily enroll the student by remote registration in a school district where the parent or guardian is in the active military of the United States or in full-time status during active service with a force of the Delaware National Guard, if the parent or guardian is being transferred to Delaware under military orders and is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Delaware.

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 173 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• 3/5 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-06 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-03 Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-08 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-06-08 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-09-15 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d5a6e60-6d06-4283-8bc3-e934d8a9a157. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).