republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-187.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.	This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Once an individual is employed as an educator, in order to receive credit for any graduate degrees earned after that time, such degree must be in the subject area in which the educator is employed.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 187	Delaware SB 187 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer David P. Sokola Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Trey Paradee	1	7	2	2023-06-16	2024-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a67196e4-6c90-4fc6-8298-f5a5aca3a513	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140653	468f7e8fa81e6a4fc6593c2ba840c472175ba4a2e66e91d2e487256ac7470e5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 187 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.

This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Once an individual is employed as an educator, in order to receive credit for any graduate degrees earned after that time, such degree must be in the subject area in which the educator is employed.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-16 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-01-10 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-11 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-08-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a67196e4-6c90-4fc6-8298-f5a5aca3a513. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).