Fabio
78 lines
4.9 KiB
Markdown
78 lines
4.9 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 14 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, AND SALARY SUPPLEMENTS."
|
||
description: "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."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
|
||
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
|
||
session: "153"
|
||
identifier: "HB 97"
|
||
citation: "Delaware HB 97 (153)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["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"]
|
||
version_count: 1
|
||
action_count: 9
|
||
vote_count: 2
|
||
first_action: "2025-03-27"
|
||
last_action: "2025-09-02"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6d97c1d-ef18-408a-ba91-fb81194c431c"
|
||
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142023"
|
||
source_hash: "8097a180f0a0e74130f01d879384c053b6225ce5d78baf841a233d8b325cea90"
|
||
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 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](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142058&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
|
||
|
||
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6d97c1d-ef18-408a-ba91-fb81194c431c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
|
||
|