republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-279.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEREAVEMENT LEAVE.	This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 279	Delaware HB 279 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Daniel B. Short Darius J. Brown Debra Heffernan Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Kerri Evelyn Harris Laura V. Sturgeon Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean M. Lynn Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby Trey Paradee William Bush	2	9	2	2024-01-09	2024-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/3dd4aeab-8a79-40b8-964b-be1975ba49c6	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140836	7b4fa0c18835b8006b48de8a9fd04b7ac429f4a1368b463675234c0054e0775f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 279 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEREAVEMENT LEAVE.

This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 279 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-12 Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-03-12 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-03-12 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-08-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3dd4aeab-8a79-40b8-964b-be1975ba49c6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).