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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FUNDING."
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description: "This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is to be distributed to school districts and charter schools."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 56"
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citation: "Delaware SB 56 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-01-28"
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last_action: "2021-06-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc68793e-15cb-487a-91ab-608f9a91ba95"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48348"
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source_hash: "e7fb193c9ff76c137639ca90df5a01cfe8583c5187ead2d4bd0ce6f4297ba773"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 56 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FUNDING.
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This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is to be distributed to school districts and charter schools.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48348&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB56)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
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- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-01-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-03-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
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- **2021-03-12** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-24** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-05-07** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-06-30** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc68793e-15cb-487a-91ab-608f9a91ba95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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