republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-156.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.	Under the current salary scale for teachers, if a permitted paraprofessional in a school wishes to become a certified teacher in the same school, they may have to take a pay cut to do so. This Act provides teachers who previously worked as paraprofessionals in the schools to receive partial credit towards their experience on the teacher salary scale for their time working within the schools as paraprofessionals.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 156	Delaware SB 156 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Darius J. Brown David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Franklin D. Cooke Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Michael F. Smith Paul S. Baumbach Russell Huxtable Ruth Briggs King S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride	1	7	2	2023-06-01	2023-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/4065942c-daac-49cb-9a33-2092a84ba191	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140466	61b03a24aa70d80dd1a752dfaeb0ec02f86b51472e502a108d2db426b9663789	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 156 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Under the current salary scale for teachers, if a permitted paraprofessional in a school wishes to become a certified teacher in the same school, they may have to take a pay cut to do so. This Act provides teachers who previously worked as paraprofessionals in the schools to receive partial credit towards their experience on the teacher salary scale for their time working within the schools as paraprofessionals.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 7 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-06-08 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2023-08-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4065942c-daac-49cb-9a33-2092a84ba191. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).