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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EDUCATOR EVALUATION SYSTEM."
description: "This Act suspends the educator evaluation system during the 2020-2021 school year and replaces it with an observation and feedback cycle that provides educators with coaching and support related to hybrid and remote learning practices. This Act provides for all of the following during the observation and feedback cycle:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Delaware SB 42 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "John L. Mitchell", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael Ramone", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Sherae'a Moore", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/222cf701-4f11-4a65-8621-d860d3048f2c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48313"
source_hash: "57151341f758c34de40662a4d27d20e4d6a30708ab0cc277ba6282baaa2bbfb0"
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 42 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EDUCATOR EVALUATION SYSTEM.
This Act suspends the educator evaluation system during the 2020-2021 school year and replaces it with an observation and feedback cycle that provides educators with coaching and support related to hybrid and remote learning practices. This Act provides for all of the following during the observation and feedback cycle:
## 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=48313&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB42)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-20** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-01-22** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-02-16** 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/222cf701-4f11-4a65-8621-d860d3048f2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).