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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "This bill expands the list of persons eligible to participate in the Ada Leigh Soles Memorial Professional Librarian and Archivist Incentive Scholarship Program to include employees of non-public libraries in Delaware that join the Delaware Library Consortium."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 34"
citation: "Delaware HB 34 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/882ea3dd-4bc4-4aca-9985-8a3cd94b4e85"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25386"
source_hash: "eb06d99682a326693362e515c38eb9529935c2cfa3d9e12fc8ab473fef7c0b1a"
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 34 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
This bill expands the list of persons eligible to participate in the Ada Leigh Soles Memorial Professional Librarian and Archivist Incentive Scholarship Program to include employees of non-public libraries in Delaware that join the Delaware Library Consortium.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25386&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB34)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-12** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-19** 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/882ea3dd-4bc4-4aca-9985-8a3cd94b4e85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).