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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: "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."
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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 187"
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citation: "Delaware SB 187 (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", "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"]
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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: "2023-06-16"
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last_action: "2024-08-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a67196e4-6c90-4fc6-8298-f5a5aca3a513"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140653"
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source_hash: "468f7e8fa81e6a4fc6593c2ba840c472175ba4a2e66e91d2e487256ac7470e5e"
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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 187 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.
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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.
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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=140653&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB187)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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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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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-16** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-01-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2024-01-10** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-08-12** 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/a67196e4-6c90-4fc6-8298-f5a5aca3a513`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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