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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS."
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 members 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 members spouse or partner; or military deployment of the school board member."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 83"
citation: "Delaware HB 83 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
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"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/811b2008-3789-4397-bf69-f5569bbac89b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142044"
source_hash: "ac6139c8ba96220c23682582dc54ea9f4042b5bca4c55b1c4805a873fc5c90d7"
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 83 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS.
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 members 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 members spouse or partner; or military deployment of the school board member.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **192** (pass) · upper
- SM — **351** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-03** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 83 `introduction`
- **2025-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
- **2025-09-02** 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/811b2008-3789-4397-bf69-f5569bbac89b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).