republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-300.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.	This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware middle schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2023, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 6-8 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Additionally a unit ratio of 700 full time equivalent students for grades 6-8 for employment of a full-time school psychologist. This Act defines “mental health services” as prevention, response, and coordination services delivered to students in elementary schools.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 300	Delaware HB 300 (151)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Michael F. Smith Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker Valerie Longhurst	2	12	2	2022-02-11	2022-08-03	openstates	ocd-bill/d9e276cf-05d8-4ebf-9818-d698241c0f66	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79147	bc067607233031479f9b23c42beda1307068f87d85e6e55932ee8acdff7844d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 300 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware middle schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2023, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 6-8 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Additionally a unit ratio of 700 full time equivalent students for grades 6-8 for employment of a full-time school psychologist. This Act defines “mental health services” as prevention, response, and coordination services delivered to students in elementary schools.

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 300 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-11 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-19 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 300 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-16 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-16 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-22 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-08-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9e276cf-05d8-4ebf-9818-d698241c0f66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).