republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-66.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION.	Beginning in 2002, schools, school districts, and licensed child care providers have been required to keep binders of community notifications with information about registered sex offenders. This requirement was enacted based on recommendation from the Community Notification Task Force that schools have a role in community awareness. However, this requirement has created financial, administrative, and emotional burdens for staff who maintain the binders. The binders are rarely reviewed by the public and they do not necessarily provide up-to-date information or information on sex offenders in the immediate geographic area of the school, school district, or licensed child care provider. Additionally, in its March 31, 2002, report, the Community Notification School Task Force found that schools do not have the expertise to answer inevitable questions regarding the nature of particular offenses or the risk posed by particular offenders, and that it is not an appropriate role for educators to answer those questions.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 66	Delaware SB 66 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer Dave G. Lawson David L. Wilson David P. Sokola John "Jack" Walsh Josue O Ortega Mara Gorman Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Richard G. Collins Ronald E. Gray Russell Huxtable Trey Paradee	0	7	2	2025-03-06	2025-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/ac371142-2934-4453-8c13-c1b4f1e7e5fe	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141887	9a5d5e8feb34a3d327544824b86f991b3723578fcc82a13014c25cb915da7fa1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 66 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION.

Beginning in 2002, schools, school districts, and licensed child care providers have been required to keep binders of community notifications with information about registered sex offenders. This requirement was enacted based on recommendation from the Community Notification Task Force that schools have a role in community awareness. However, this requirement has created financial, administrative, and emotional burdens for staff who maintain the binders. The binders are rarely reviewed by the public and they do not necessarily provide up-to-date information or information on sex offenders in the immediate geographic area of the school, school district, or licensed child care provider. Additionally, in its March 31, 2002, report, the Community Notification School Task Force found that schools do not have the expertise to answer inevitable questions regarding the nature of particular offenses or the risk posed by particular offenders, and that it is not an appropriate role for educators to answer those questions.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Richard G. Collins — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-06 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-05-20 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-08-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac371142-2934-4453-8c13-c1b4f1e7e5fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).