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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HB 47"
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citation: "Delaware HB 47 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-03-25"
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last_action: "2025-09-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa75fe23-0e72-4f2e-9fe2-6616bd1cf383"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141988"
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source_hash: "06349453362b993beb6929eaf9d8df6e4baf8211a732bf4b3457ecca49ecb1a7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 47 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 47** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142387&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **35–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-03-25** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 47 `introduction`
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- **2025-05-22** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2025-05-22** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-05-22** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2025-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2025-09-02** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa75fe23-0e72-4f2e-9fe2-6616bd1cf383`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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