republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-97.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 14 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, AND SALARY SUPPLEMENTS.	This Act ensures that a public school employee may not work directly with students unsupervised without a valid permit or license issued by the DOE’s Professional Standards Boards or an approved license issued under Title 24. To that end, this Act creates a new permit requirement for any paraprofessional or student support and classroom position, including specialist interns, year-long residents, full time substitute teachers, substitute teachers seeking certification, student teachers, and classroom aides. The following employees are exempt from the permitting and licensing requirements: non-instructional administrators; nutrition staff; custodial staff; transportation staff; clerical staff; charter school heads exempt under § 507(c) of Title 14; and substitute teachers seriving for less than 12 consecutive weeks in a school.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 97	Delaware HB 97 (153)	bill		enacted	John "Jack" Walsh Josue O Ortega Kimberly Williams Laura V. Sturgeon Mara Gorman Melanie Ross Levin Michael F. Smith Ray Seigfried Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	1	9	2	2025-03-27	2025-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f6d97c1d-ef18-408a-ba91-fb81194c431c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142023	8097a180f0a0e74130f01d879384c053b6225ce5d78baf841a233d8b325cea90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 97 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 14 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, AND SALARY SUPPLEMENTS.

This Act ensures that a public school employee may not work directly with students unsupervised without a valid permit or license issued by the DOE’s Professional Standards Boards or an approved license issued under Title 24. To that end, this Act creates a new permit requirement for any paraprofessional or student support and classroom position, including specialist interns, year-long residents, full time substitute teachers, substitute teachers seeking certification, student teachers, and classroom aides. The following employees are exempt from the permitting and licensing requirements: non-instructional administrators; nutrition staff; custodial staff; transportation staff; clerical staff; charter school heads exempt under § 507(c) of Title 14; and substitute teachers seriving for less than 12 consecutive weeks in a school.

Version chain

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

1. HA 1 to HB 97 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 30–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-27 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 97 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-09 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-06 Amendment HA 1 to HB 97 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-05-06 Passed By House. Votes: 30 YES 2 NOT VOTING 9 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-06 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-26 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/f6d97c1d-ef18-408a-ba91-fb81194c431c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).