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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CULTURAL RESOURCE INCENTIVE PROGRAM."
description: "This Act establishes a cultural resources professional scholarship for the purpose of enabling and encouraging academically talented Delawareans to pursue careers as cultural resource professionals. The scholarship is also available to persons already serving in positions with cultural resource agencies, such as the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs or with organizations that are institutional members of the Delaware Museum Association, among others, further their education. This scholarship would strengthen Delawares ability to both recruit and retain a more diverse workforce and would help the state meet federal credentialing requirements for federally-funded projects. The scholarship is named for the late Lewis M. “Skipper” Purnell, one of Delawares leading historical preservationists and husband of Mrs. Matilda “Til” Purnell, a great Delaware environmentalist in her own right."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 263"
citation: "Delaware SB 263 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-15"
last_action: "2022-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2980b55b-8a44-40a5-93aa-0d050dd31a1d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129724"
source_hash: "c996f1c7b333bdc0c4141506a8a047bf4f3f47d30ed283eced94b5e14145bf98"
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 SB 263 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CULTURAL RESOURCE INCENTIVE PROGRAM.
This Act establishes a cultural resources professional scholarship for the purpose of enabling and encouraging academically talented Delawareans to pursue careers as cultural resource professionals. The scholarship is also available to persons already serving in positions with cultural resource agencies, such as the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs or with organizations that are institutional members of the Delaware Museum Association, among others, further their education. This scholarship would strengthen Delawares ability to both recruit and retain a more diverse workforce and would help the state meet federal credentialing requirements for federally-funded projects. The scholarship is named for the late Lewis M. “Skipper” Purnell, one of Delawares leading historical preservationists and husband of Mrs. Matilda “Til” Purnell, a great Delaware environmentalist in her own right.
## 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=129724&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB263)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-06-15** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 263, and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-25** 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/2980b55b-8a44-40a5-93aa-0d050dd31a1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).