republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-61.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABSENCES OF SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.	Teachers and other school employees (school employees) do not accrue annual leave that can be used on a flexible basis. Under current law, school employees may only use 3 days of sick leave for personal reasons and may be absent for 5 days after the death of an immediate family member and for 1 day only, on the day of the funeral, after the death of a near relative.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 61	Delaware SB 61 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer David P. Sokola Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Spiros Mantzavinos Valerie Longhurst	2	11	3	2023-03-07	2023-07-26	openstates	ocd-bill/c02e4abd-af50-4d73-a965-6714b29a750a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130049	fe6f9f400bb8f946b7d45578d7a1462e453b0fd73db7c8cb7fc12e6a32a7ee31	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 61 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABSENCES OF SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.

Teachers and other school employees (school employees) do not accrue annual leave that can be used on a flexible basis. Under current law, school employees may only use 3 days of sick leave for personal reasons and may be absent for 5 days after the death of an immediate family member and for 1 day only, on the day of the funeral, after the death of a near relative.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to SB 61 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 36–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-07 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-03-17 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-04-27 Amendment HA 2 to SB 61 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-27 Amendment HA 1 to SB 61 - Stricken in House
• 2023-04-27 Amendment HA 2 to SB 61 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-04-27 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT passage
• 2023-05-02 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-07-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c02e4abd-af50-4d73-a965-6714b29a750a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).