republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-85.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.	Under current law, both school board members who are elected and those who are appointed to fill vacancies until the next election are required to complete a background check. However, the statute is currently unclear as to how a background check gets done and who is responsible for reviewing the background check for an appointment. This Act makes clear that a person may not be appointed unless a background check has been completed and the Commissioner of Elections has determined the person is qualified for the seat, in the same manner the Commissioner completes that duty for candidates for school board elections.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 85	Delaware HB 85 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer Daniel B. Short Dave G. Lawson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Kimberly Williams Laura V. Sturgeon Lyndon D. Yearick Madinah Wilson-Anton Mara Gorman Melanie Ross Levin Michael F. Smith Nicole Poore Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby	0	7	2	2025-03-18	2025-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/7b06845e-5a5f-4622-a9fc-3482043b5b55	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141962	2b9e9486f8b4fff6972fb649d018091877b3237da14ccbad53ea8d1fffbea153	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 85 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.

Under current law, both school board members who are elected and those who are appointed to fill vacancies until the next election are required to complete a background check. However, the statute is currently unclear as to how a background check gets done and who is responsible for reviewing the background check for an appointment. This Act makes clear that a person may not be appointed unless a background check has been completed and the Commissioner of Elections has determined the person is qualified for the seat, in the same manner the Commissioner completes that duty for candidates for school board elections.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — 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, 12 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-17 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 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: 21 YES passage
• 2025-09-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b06845e-5a5f-4622-a9fc-3482043b5b55. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).