republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-202.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING.	This Act is designed to increase the opportunity for Delaware children to undergo developmental screening with a research-based screening tool at an early age in order to identify children who may be eligible for Early Intervention or special education services. It requires any applicant for a license or renewal of a license to operate a child care facility on or after July 1, 2023 to commit that each child between the age of birth and 5 years old (who has not yet entered kindergarten) enrolled by the child care provider will undergo developmental and social emotional screening. The screening mechanism to be used is the screening system approved by the Department of Education and will be administered by the parent or guardian of the child seeking to be enrolled in the child care facility.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 202	Delaware HB 202 (151)	bill		enacted	Kimberly Williams Nicole Poore Sherry Dorsey Walker	1	7	2	2021-05-20	2021-10-20	openstates	ocd-bill/7ad7bf89-781f-48ab-8ffd-c29563f55b09	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78746	36193651137092765980dd6af0d4d0d53d03779398ec80025c4e1cafdd571358	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 202 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING.

This Act is designed to increase the opportunity for Delaware children to undergo developmental screening with a research-based screening tool at an early age in order to identify children who may be eligible for Early Intervention or special education services. It requires any applicant for a license or renewal of a license to operate a child care facility on or after July 1, 2023 to commit that each child between the age of birth and 5 years old (who has not yet entered kindergarten) enrolled by the child care provider will undergo developmental and social emotional screening. The screening mechanism to be used is the screening system approved by the Department of Education and will be administered by the parent or guardian of the child seeking to be enrolled in the child care facility.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–3 (pass) · lower
• SM — 16–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-20 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT 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
• 2021-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO passage
• 2021-10-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ad7bf89-781f-48ab-8ffd-c29563f55b09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).