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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION."
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description: "This Act requires the Secretary of Education to publish and deliver to the General Assembly a report detailing requests for certificates of necessity that are not included in the proposed capital budget and the reasons for the rejection and a ranking of the rejected projects by need. The report is also required to include a breakdown of the current and previous 5 years of state spending committed through the certificate of necessity process, as well as a report on which priority level (1, 2, or 3) all approved and rejected applications are given."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 169"
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citation: "Delaware HB 169 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Ruth Briggs King", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-05-18"
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last_action: "2023-08-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71d28a5f-a958-4b95-92f4-c5d273fb1aff"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140433"
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source_hash: "604461b9246338950c9896c94148252fb55cfacf17aa4078e8e96126abf289c0"
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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 HB 169 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION.
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This Act requires the Secretary of Education to publish and deliver to the General Assembly a report detailing requests for certificates of necessity that are not included in the proposed capital budget and the reasons for the rejection and a ranking of the rejected projects by need. The report is also required to include a breakdown of the current and previous 5 years of state spending committed through the certificate of necessity process, as well as a report on which priority level (1, 2, or 3) all approved and rejected applications are given.
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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=140433&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB169)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3/4 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-05-18** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-06-20** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-08-09** 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/71d28a5f-a958-4b95-92f4-c5d273fb1aff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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