republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-175.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.	This Act allows one excused absence per school year for students grades 6 through 12 to attend civic engagements such as visits to the United States Capitol, Legislative Hall, and sites of political and cultural significance, or participation in a rally, march, protest, or walkout. For a student to attend a civic engagement event, the student’s parent or guardian must provide written permission no later than 3 school days prior to the student’s planned absence. The school shall determine what is acceptable as written permission. If the principal or another school or school district official does not confirm receipt of written permission with the parent or guardian prior to the student’s planned absence, permission for the student to attend the civic engagement event as an excused absence is presumed.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 175	Delaware HB 175 (151)	bill		enacted	Eric Morrison Laura V. Sturgeon Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	10	2	2021-04-22	2021-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e7aeec72-5dda-4ee8-8417-824ab92b837e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68607	5108d41303f337023f5eeec47f707347b33b48c9228f31d36b89d7877fa004b5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 175 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

This Act allows one excused absence per school year for students grades 6 through 12 to attend civic engagements such as visits to the United States Capitol, Legislative Hall, and sites of political and cultural significance, or participation in a rally, march, protest, or walkout. For a student to attend a civic engagement event, the student’s parent or guardian must provide written permission no later than 3 school days prior to the student’s planned absence. The school shall determine what is acceptable as written permission. If the principal or another school or school district official does not confirm receipt of written permission with the parent or guardian prior to the student’s planned absence, permission for the student to attend the civic engagement event as an excused absence is presumed.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 175 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 13–8 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-22 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-06 Amendment HA 1 to HB 175 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-05-12 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-13 Amendment HA 2 to HB 175 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-10 Amendment HA 2 to HB 175 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-10 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-10 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: 13 YES 8 NO passage
• 2021-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7aeec72-5dda-4ee8-8417-824ab92b837e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).