republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-198.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION.	This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 198	Delaware HB 198 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Debra Heffernan Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Melissa Minor-Brown S. Elizabeth Lockman Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	9	2	2021-03-19	2021-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48487	96cf7a131623095f839b76b8102976b82e1409f10d5056298466f3f1ed8ccb17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 198 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION.

This Act requires each school district and charter school to establish and implement a curriculum on Black History for students in grades K through 12. This Act incorporates contemporary events into discussions of Black History and the tools of experience.

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 198 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 33–7 (pass) · lower
• SM — 16–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-19 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-04-29 Amendment HA 1 to HB 198 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES amendment-passage
• 2021-04-29 Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2021-04-29 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-18 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO passage
• 2021-06-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/660ede1e-8a7b-4e20-a9fa-266135e20c09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).