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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER SALARIES."
description: "This Act removes the time restriction that only allowed for certain teachers or specialists who were hired after August 9, 2023, to obtain additional experience credit for purposes of salary computation. This Act would allow for teachers or specialists hired before August 9, 2023, to qualify for the same experience credit for purposes of salary computation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Delaware SB 81 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Ray Seigfried", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-09-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6c2de49-1eb9-4d1b-81a6-0993561aff4d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142035"
source_hash: "63d14d26a55c5c33aa097e4011bb673c947415bca5f8b0f4e5f87f0ce98b9de7"
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 SB 81 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TEACHER SALARIES.
This Act removes the time restriction that only allowed for certain teachers or specialists who were hired after August 9, 2023, to obtain additional experience credit for purposes of salary computation. This Act would allow for teachers or specialists hired before August 9, 2023, to qualify for the same experience credit for purposes of salary computation.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SA 1 to SB 81** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142130&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
2. **SA 2 to SB 81** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142281&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-03** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 81 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Amendment SA 2 to SB 81 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 81 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-14** Amendment SA 2 to SB 81 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `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/a6c2de49-1eb9-4d1b-81a6-0993561aff4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).