republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-270.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
description: "This Act establishes an evaluation and assessment system created by the Department of Education to determine whether a school facility is in good repair to assure that school facilities are clean, safe, and functional for staff and students. This Act also requires the Division of Public Health to create a routine indoor air quality monitoring program that includes temperature and humidity standards that is published on the Department of Health and Social Services website. It further requires the Division of Public Health to create a contractor certification program for indoor air quality services that will allow schools to contract with properly trained and certified contractors when indoor air quality remediation is necessary. The Act also provides procedures for districts to make procedures clear for receiving and reporting indoor air quality complaints in schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 270"
citation: "Delaware SB 270 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael Ramone", "Nicole Poore", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f21189c-1d00-4452-9069-9ddc3bc94e81"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109594"
source_hash: "9574860d426b11827ab25a10a0fb40f5343a65484b4bf280c5a635f52b2240f4"
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 270 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

This Act establishes an evaluation and assessment system created by the Department of Education to determine whether a school facility is in good repair to assure that school facilities are clean, safe, and functional for staff and students. This Act also requires the Division of Public Health to create a routine indoor air quality monitoring program that includes temperature and humidity standards that is published on the Department of Health and Social Services website. It further requires the Division of Public Health to create a contractor certification program for indoor air quality services that will allow schools to contract with properly trained and certified contractors when indoor air quality remediation is necessary. The Act also provides procedures for districts to make procedures clear for receiving and reporting indoor air quality complaints in schools.

## 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=109594&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB270)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **33–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 270, and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-08** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Stricken in House
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-10-03** 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/9f21189c-1d00-4452-9069-9ddc3bc94e81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).