republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-174.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STUDENT DISCIPLINE REFERRALS.	This Act requires a referral to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist for any student after their second unduplicated infraction resulting in out-of-school suspension in a semester. This Substitute bill clarifies that the referral is to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist rather than the school-based problem-solving team and the referral occurs after 2 unduplicated disciplinary violations, in a semester, result in an out-of-school suspension rather than 2 out-of-school suspensions.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 174	Delaware HB 174 (152)	bill		enacted	Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney S. Elizabeth Lockman Sherae'a Moore William Bush	1	6	2	2023-06-26	2023-08-31	openstates	ocd-bill/d958f1fe-4ce3-43a8-8277-a26599efd0c3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140722	4508977954c7c9dd4a312bad0ffa39e2743ea42e601a3a96a3ee4c0eaa70b62b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 174 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STUDENT DISCIPLINE REFERRALS.

This Act requires a referral to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist for any student after their second unduplicated infraction resulting in out-of-school suspension in a semester. This Substitute bill clarifies that the referral is to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist rather than the school-based problem-solving team and the referral occurs after 2 unduplicated disciplinary violations, in a semester, result in an out-of-school suspension rather than 2 out-of-school suspensions.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 25–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-26 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 174 introduction
• 2023-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 14 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-29 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2023-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-08-31 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d958f1fe-4ce3-43a8-8277-a26599efd0c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).