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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INSPIRE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM."
description: "This bill will provide Delaware students with strong academic credentials and a demonstrated commitment to volunteer public service to receive scholarship monies sufficient to cover the full cost of tuition at Delaware State University. The intent of this bill is to increase the number of students in Delaware who not only attend the University but who successfully complete degree programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Delaware SB 95 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Marie Pinkney", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherae'a Moore", "Stephanie T. Bolden", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b361199-c65a-4c49-b7d2-be7385a58702"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48517"
source_hash: "92cd25aa26bf1c34f49d82236ec8994a062f94b3010dc4100010fb7bfc7aeffe"
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 95 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INSPIRE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.
This bill will provide Delaware students with strong academic credentials and a demonstrated commitment to volunteer public service to receive scholarship monies sufficient to cover the full cost of tuition at Delaware State University. The intent of this bill is to increase the number of students in Delaware who not only attend the University but who successfully complete degree programs.
## 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=48517&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB95)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-25** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment SA 1 to SB 95 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment SA 1 to SB 95 - Stricken by Senate
- **2021-04-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-04** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-07-30** 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/0b361199-c65a-4c49-b7d2-be7385a58702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).