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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "This act will allow a critical need reimbursement to be distributed directly to an institute of higher education or Secretary of Education approved Alternative Routes to Teacher Licensure and Certification program for an eligible teacher who is taking noncredit-earning seminars or workshops or credit-bearing coursework in order to attain a Standard Certification in a state-approved critical need area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Delaware HB 89 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Sherae'a Moore", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de1d4de2-a320-4fc9-8a97-99bb58da2e39"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48346"
source_hash: "458517492f9d1940868d9bfe24a15d97b327e8249c3b633339df1c78015e281b"
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 89 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
This act will allow a critical need reimbursement to be distributed directly to an institute of higher education or Secretary of Education approved Alternative Routes to Teacher Licensure and Certification program for an eligible teacher who is taking noncredit-earning seminars or workshops or credit-bearing coursework in order to attain a Standard Certification in a state-approved critical need area.
## 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=48346&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB89)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-27** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 8 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-15** 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/de1d4de2-a320-4fc9-8a97-99bb58da2e39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).