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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SALARY STEP FOR COMPLETION OF TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM."
description: "This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delaware Institute of Higher Education teacher-residency program 1 year of experience credit in addition to any other experience granted under Section 1312. The goal of this Act is to incentivize a new graduate who has completed the year-long Delaware residency program to stay and teach in Delaware by elevating their starting pay grade level by giving them 1 year of experience credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Delaware HB 252 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "Edward S. Osienski", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-13"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bfa2393-aa6c-4793-ba58-4cb60929b40b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141036"
source_hash: "22deab3055e02d47ff5f4ad6a421feec6ae51a4f8dd95a200103fdff85ec8cb1"
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 HB 252 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SALARY STEP FOR COMPLETION OF TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM.
This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delaware Institute of Higher Education teacher-residency program 1 year of experience credit in addition to any other experience granted under Section 1312. The goal of this Act is to incentivize a new graduate who has completed the year-long Delaware residency program to stay and teach in Delaware by elevating their starting pay grade level by giving them 1 year of experience credit.
## 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=141036&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS2forHB252)
## Votes
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-13** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 252 `introduction`
- **2024-03-19** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/4bfa2393-aa6c-4793-ba58-4cb60929b40b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).