republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-311.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.	This bill creates new subsections in Section 507(c) of Title 14 of the Delaware Code to define the licensure and certification requirements more clearly within Chapter 5 of Title 14 and provides the ability for charter schools to hire the administrators that they deem beneficial to the success of the school’s education program and the needs of students and staff. To that end, the bill defines “Instructional Administrator” and “Non-instructional Administrator” at a charter school. The bill clarifies that all Instructional Administrators at charter schools must be licensed and certified as administrators while Non-instructional Administrators do not. The bill also exempts the charter school administrator who reports directly to the Charter Board of Directors from the licensure and certification requirement and allows a charter school to request permission from the charter authorizer to hire an additional unlicensed and uncertified administrator.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 311	Delaware SB 311 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David P. Sokola Kendra Johnson Michael F. Smith Michael Ramone Peter C. Schwartzkopf	2	11	3	2024-05-21	2024-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/0054eb07-fb14-4326-984d-a01cfb30b1dd	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141448	1968cf97099ac6fd1ea6823ae34a01f9321982998e169f1c8bae9a4007e7932c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 311 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION.

This bill creates new subsections in Section 507(c) of Title 14 of the Delaware Code to define the licensure and certification requirements more clearly within Chapter 5 of Title 14 and provides the ability for charter schools to hire the administrators that they deem beneficial to the success of the school’s education program and the needs of students and staff. To that end, the bill defines “Instructional Administrator” and “Non-instructional Administrator” at a charter school. The bill clarifies that all Instructional Administrators at charter schools must be licensed and certified as administrators while Non-instructional Administrators do not. The bill also exempts the charter school administrator who reports directly to the Charter Board of Directors from the licensure and certification requirement and allows a charter school to request permission from the charter authorizer to hire an additional unlicensed and uncertified administrator.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to SB 311 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-21 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-13 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-14 Re-Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-20 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to SB 311 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to SB 311 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-09-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0054eb07-fb14-4326-984d-a01cfb30b1dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).