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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS."
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description: "This House Substitute No. 1 provides that if a school board allows school board members to attend meetings remotely through electronic means, then permission to attend remotely must be granted in the case of any of the following: illness of the school board member; illness of an individual in the school board member’s family where that individual requires caretaking; a public health emergency; pregnancy or immediate postpartum care responsibilities of the school board member or the school board member’s spouse or partner; or military deployment of the school board member."
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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 83"
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citation: "Delaware HB 83 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Mara Gorman", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 6
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-04-03"
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last_action: "2025-09-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/811b2008-3789-4397-bf69-f5569bbac89b"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142044"
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source_hash: "ac6139c8ba96220c23682582dc54ea9f4042b5bca4c55b1c4805a873fc5c90d7"
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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 83 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS.
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This House Substitute No. 1 provides that if a school board allows school board members to attend meetings remotely through electronic means, then permission to attend remotely must be granted in the case of any of the following: illness of the school board member; illness of an individual in the school board member’s family where that individual requires caretaking; a public health emergency; pregnancy or immediate postpartum care responsibilities of the school board member or the school board member’s spouse or partner; or military deployment of the school board member.
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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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## Votes
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- SM — **19–2** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **35–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-04-03** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 83 `introduction`
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- **2025-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-04-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2025-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `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/811b2008-3789-4397-bf69-f5569bbac89b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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