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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION."
description: "This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (“DIAA”) Task Force (“Task Force”). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations to best address the needs of student athletes and ensure DIAAs effective and efficient functioning. The Task Force met over 8 months to discuss the most pressing issues facing DIAA. This Act addresses one of the identified issues: the waiver process when a student transfers from one school to another and wishes to play interscholastic athletics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 281"
citation: "Delaware SB 281 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Daniel B. Short", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Nicole Poore", "Timothy D. Dukes", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-02"
last_action: "2024-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58fe1160-f545-4ea3-b7a1-4738caf4d0f3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141287"
source_hash: "e19d9c811f2244ea86a9c04f2e596deb4d506dcd484fc22cd4d4bb5c5f1c7713"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 281 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (“DIAA”) Task Force (“Task Force”). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations to best address the needs of student athletes and ensure DIAAs effective and efficient functioning. The Task Force met over 8 months to discuss the most pressing issues facing DIAA. This Act addresses one of the identified issues: the waiver process when a student transfers from one school to another and wishes to play interscholastic athletics.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141287&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB281)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-02** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-08-02** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58fe1160-f545-4ea3-b7a1-4738caf4d0f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).