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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES."
description: "This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "Delaware SB 295 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-08"
last_action: "2024-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe8d0770-d755-49ef-ad20-aafcf58c408c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141325"
source_hash: "2b513a21abc7954e6c20a2faf3443cc7741512d9b82a36d9407f0d18fef85edf"
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 295 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.
This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all of the following:
## 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=141325&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB295)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-30** 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/fe8d0770-d755-49ef-ad20-aafcf58c408c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).