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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 RELATING TO INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS."
description: "This Act requires the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to promulgate regulations requiring all coaches to have CPR, first aid, and automated external defibrillator (AED) training. It also requires schools with an athletic program or department to have an Emergency Action Plan for responding to a cardiac arrest event at an athletic event or practice. It requires that an AED be accessible in a clearly marked, unlocked location at any athletic event or venue. Finally, the regulations must require testing and maintenance of AEDs and notification to the Office of Emergency Medical Services regarding the AED acquisition and its location."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Delaware HB 71 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Daniel B. Short", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean M. Lynn", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Valerie Jones Giltner", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff8a6774-20de-43ae-afaf-34727acf3cff"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141931"
source_hash: "0e98d03da0283a2ebe8b1939e742df8ff07724ead9d0d490e98cdeeb035a9a0a"
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 HB 71 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 RELATING TO INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS.
This Act requires the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to promulgate regulations requiring all coaches to have CPR, first aid, and automated external defibrillator (AED) training. It also requires schools with an athletic program or department to have an Emergency Action Plan for responding to a cardiac arrest event at an athletic event or practice. It requires that an AED be accessible in a clearly marked, unlocked location at any athletic event or venue. Finally, the regulations must require testing and maintenance of AEDs and notification to the Office of Emergency Medical Services regarding the AED acquisition and its location.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HA 1 to HB 71** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142473&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Valerie Jones Giltner — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 8 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to HB 71 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 71 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-30** 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/ff8a6774-20de-43ae-afaf-34727acf3cff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).