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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEAL DEBT RESTRICTIONS ON STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES."
description: "This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 263"
citation: "Delaware HB 263 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-14"
last_action: "2024-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f2f1e1d-48ac-499a-a126-94d7f0998fe8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140808"
source_hash: "20e5144512af83803e7ae4d70f5f76f01cf71f662cfef14b2cb9da3c9c1505ba"
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 263 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEAL DEBT RESTRICTIONS ON STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
## 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=140808&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB263)
2. **HA 1 to HB 263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140923&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-12-14** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 263 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-03-07** Amendment HA 1 to HB 263 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-08-02** 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/5f2f1e1d-48ac-499a-a126-94d7f0998fe8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).