republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-82.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.	This Act requires that a school board candidate and member be an “inhabitant” of the district, or designated portion of a district, that member represents. “Inhabitant” is defined for this purpose as “a person who both claims legal residence and physically resides in a designated area or school district.” Further, the bill provides that if a school board member is not physically present in their district for more than 75% of the days in any yearlong period of that member’s term, the member ceases to qualify as an inhabitant. Absence required by military service is not counted as absence for purposes of this statute. This Act provides that a resident of a school district may bring an action in Superior Court asking the Court to declare a vacancy if the resident has cause to believe a member is no longer an inhabitant of that member’s district.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 82	Delaware HB 82 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryant L. Richardson Cyndie Romer David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Madinah Wilson-Anton Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	1	12	3	2025-03-18	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2de3822b-5055-42f7-a1a2-52dbbadb5551	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141959	c155f59878754ffad63c93c4b066311ffe5eb35627d7195c886bd6d6614a1d0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 82 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.

This Act requires that a school board candidate and member be an “inhabitant” of the district, or designated portion of a district, that member represents. “Inhabitant” is defined for this purpose as “a person who both claims legal residence and physically resides in a designated area or school district.” Further, the bill provides that if a school board member is not physically present in their district for more than 75% of the days in any yearlong period of that member’s term, the member ceases to qualify as an inhabitant. Absence required by military service is not counted as absence for purposes of this statute. This Act provides that a resident of a school district may bring an action in Superior Court asking the Court to declare a vacancy if the resident has cause to believe a member is no longer an inhabitant of that member’s district.

Version chain

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

1. SA 1 to HB 82 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 33–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-18 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-06 Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-06 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-24 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2025-06-24 Amendment SA 1 to HB 82 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-25 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2025-06-25 Amendment SA 1 to HB 82 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2025-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2de3822b-5055-42f7-a1a2-52dbbadb5551. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).