republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-382.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VISION SCREENING.	This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 382	Delaware HB 382 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David P. Sokola Debra Heffernan Eric Morrison Kerri Evelyn Harris Laura V. Sturgeon Ronald E. Gray Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Stell Parker Selby Valerie Longhurst William Bush	1	7	2	2024-04-23	2024-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/29f392b0-3cf6-4eb3-a100-c63b411f12f4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141242	ea19174365187abcbbf6a74d3b3fa2296f4565b5a748322364334548367ad61b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 382 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VISION SCREENING.

This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-23 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-05-23 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-23 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-09-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29f392b0-3cf6-4eb3-a100-c63b411f12f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).