republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-291.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO POLICY REGARDING APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS.	This Act requires each school district and charter school to adopt a policy regarding appropriate relationships between school employees, contractors, coaches, and volunteers and students. The policy must include a provision establishing appropriate and inappropriate interactions; a prohibition against adult sexual misconduct; a prohibition against any sexual relationship between a school employee, contractor, coach, or volunteer and a student; an emphasis on the mandatory reporting obligations under § 903 of Title 16; a procedure for notifying the Department of Education and law enforcement of suspected adult sexual misconduct; guidelines for the preferred and prohibited methods of electronic communication; notice that substantiated incidents of adult sexual misconduct will be reported in future reference checks; and a provision requiring the development of hiring practices to screen for adult sexual misconduct. This Act will be implemented for the 2023-2024 school year.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 291	Delaware SB 291 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Kimberly Williams Laura V. Sturgeon Nicole Poore	1	7	2	2022-05-09	2022-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/027bad8b-bacf-4ff7-b04d-4edb6c85d155	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109467	977b05bda8b3166dcd5c87d0b5b5dd1354740f49a92ad807a8e392cec0cbd991	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 291 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO POLICY REGARDING APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS.

This Act requires each school district and charter school to adopt a policy regarding appropriate relationships between school employees, contractors, coaches, and volunteers and students. The policy must include a provision establishing appropriate and inappropriate interactions; a prohibition against adult sexual misconduct; a prohibition against any sexual relationship between a school employee, contractor, coach, or volunteer and a student; an emphasis on the mandatory reporting obligations under § 903 of Title 16; a procedure for notifying the Department of Education and law enforcement of suspected adult sexual misconduct; guidelines for the preferred and prohibited methods of electronic communication; notice that substantiated incidents of adult sexual misconduct will be reported in future reference checks; and a provision requiring the development of hiring practices to screen for adult sexual misconduct. This Act will be implemented for the 2023-2024 school year.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-09 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-02 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-08-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/027bad8b-bacf-4ff7-b04d-4edb6c85d155. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).