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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION."
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description: "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."
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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: "SB 156"
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citation: "Delaware SB 156 (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", "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"]
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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: "2023-06-01"
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last_action: "2023-08-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4065942c-daac-49cb-9a33-2092a84ba191"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140466"
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source_hash: "61b03a24aa70d80dd1a752dfaeb0ec02f86b51472e502a108d2db426b9663789"
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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 SB 156 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.
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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.
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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=140466&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB156)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 7 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2023-06-08** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2023-08-09** 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/4065942c-daac-49cb-9a33-2092a84ba191`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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