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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CANDIDACY FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 88"
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citation: "Delaware HB 88 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William J. Carson"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-17"
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last_action: "2023-05-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd57b28c-5ae5-4263-b87a-cb5bee2c132f"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130099"
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source_hash: "d82e90a72f8a8747695d5f8b07333bbf10b52529e1c063eb1cd27b32f9eeb46c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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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.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=130099&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB88)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- William J. Carson — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-03-17** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-29** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 11 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-04** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-04-04** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2023-05-12** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd57b28c-5ae5-4263-b87a-cb5bee2c132f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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