republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-78.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.	Senate Bill No. 78 enhances the qualifications for an individual to serve as a member of a school board or the State Board of Education.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 78	Delaware SB 78 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Kimberly Williams Laura V. Sturgeon Paul S. Baumbach S. Elizabeth Lockman Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	8	2	2021-04-27	2021-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/8932bbf1-a8e0-40cb-a10c-dc68cbecfc83	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68618	5ec52fc61055a7b895499fdaad58fd68460aa9525a6ba7492ae1b1da4b3a82f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 78 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Senate Bill No. 78 enhances the qualifications for an individual to serve as a member of a school board or the State Board of Education.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SS 2 for SB 78 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-27 was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 78 introduction
• 2021-05-13 Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-05-13 Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO amendment-passage
• 2021-05-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2021-05-14 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-09-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8932bbf1-a8e0-40cb-a10c-dc68cbecfc83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).