republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-47.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS.	This Act incorporates changes made by HS1 for HB204, which was passed by both chambers during the 151st General Assembly, but never enacted into law. It removes the exemption for private schools and youth camps that allows them to use a name-based, rather than a fingerprint-based, background check or choose not to do background checks at all for employees, contractors and volunteers. This Act also authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations relating to re-use of a criminal background check. The State Bureau of Identification is also required to provide subsequent criminal history information to the agency receiving background check information. Authority is given to the Department of Education to pay the costs of background checks for its employees.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 47	Delaware HB 47 (153)	bill		enacted	David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Kimberly Williams Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby	1	8	2	2025-03-25	2025-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/aa75fe23-0e72-4f2e-9fe2-6616bd1cf383	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141988	06349453362b993beb6929eaf9d8df6e4baf8211a732bf4b3457ecca49ecb1a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 47 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS.

This Act incorporates changes made by HS1 for HB204, which was passed by both chambers during the 151st General Assembly, but never enacted into law. It removes the exemption for private schools and youth camps that allows them to use a name-based, rather than a fingerprint-based, background check or choose not to do background checks at all for employees, contractors and volunteers. This Act also authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations relating to re-use of a criminal background check. The State Bureau of Identification is also required to provide subsequent criminal history information to the agency receiving background check information. Authority is given to the Department of Education to pay the costs of background checks for its employees.

Version chain

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

1. HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 47 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-25 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 47 introduction
• 2025-05-22 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-05-22 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-05-22 Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-22 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-09-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa75fe23-0e72-4f2e-9fe2-6616bd1cf383. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).