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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CANDIDACY FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. | Under Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 78 (151st), the Commissioner of Elections (Commissioner) must determine that an individual does not have any disqualifying convictions before the individual can be a candidate for election to a school board. This Act clarifies that an individual who meets the filing deadline for candidates for a school board election are provisional candidates until the Commissioner determines if the individual is eligible to be a candidate and requires the Commissioner to disclose the names of provisional candidates. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 152 | HB 88 | Delaware HB 88 (152) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2023-03-17 | 2023-05-12 | openstates | ocd-bill/cd57b28c-5ae5-4263-b87a-cb5bee2c132f | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130099 | d82e90a72f8a8747695d5f8b07333bbf10b52529e1c063eb1cd27b32f9eeb46c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 88 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CANDIDACY FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.
Under Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 78 (151st), the Commissioner of Elections (Commissioner) must determine that an individual does not have any disqualifying convictions before the individual can be a candidate for election to a school board. This Act clarifies that an individual who meets the filing deadline for candidates for a school board election are provisional candidates until the Commissioner determines if the individual is eligible to be a candidate and requires the Commissioner to disclose the names of provisional candidates.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
- SM — 39–0 (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)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-03-17 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-03-29 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2023-04-04 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
passage - 2023-04-04 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2023-05-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO
passage - 2023-05-12 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd57b28c-5ae5-4263-b87a-cb5bee2c132f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).