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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUPIL AND STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS."
description: "This Act requires all public schools that serve pupils in grades 7-12 that issue pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone or text numbers for the National Suicide Prevention and National Domestic Violence Hotlines and allows them to add the National Sexual Assault, Teen Dating Violence and Bullying Hotlines. The Act requires all public institutions of higher learning in Delaware, which issue student identification cards, to print on the student identification cards the telephone or text numbers for National Suicide Prevention, Domestic Violence Hotlines and local campus police or campus security telephone numbers and allows the institutions to add the National Sexual Assault Hotline number. This Act will be implemented for the 2022-2023 school year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 254"
citation: "Delaware HB 254 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-06-23"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a9e6eff-5c9b-4a72-834a-ed161694f56e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78983"
source_hash: "27491c918c43cee65f5018be249f493153e54dea6d4889d2a7320d0355d0eb69"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 254 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUPIL AND STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS.
This Act requires all public schools that serve pupils in grades 7-12 that issue pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone or text numbers for the National Suicide Prevention and National Domestic Violence Hotlines and allows them to add the National Sexual Assault, Teen Dating Violence and Bullying Hotlines. The Act requires all public institutions of higher learning in Delaware, which issue student identification cards, to print on the student identification cards the telephone or text numbers for National Suicide Prevention, Domestic Violence Hotlines and local campus police or campus security telephone numbers and allows the institutions to add the National Sexual Assault Hotline number. This Act will be implemented for the 2022-2023 school year.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=78983&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB254)
2. **SA 1 to HB 254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79237&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-23** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 7 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-27** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-01-27** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-16** Amendment SA 1 to HB 254 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Amendment SA 1 to HB 254 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-03-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-04** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a9e6eff-5c9b-4a72-834a-ed161694f56e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).