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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION ENROLLMENT OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS."
description: "This Act allows the parent or guardian of a military-connected student to preliminarily enroll the student by remote registration in a school district where the parent or guardian is in the active military of the United States or in full-time status during active service with a force of the Delaware National Guard, if the parent or guardian is being transferred to Delaware under military orders and is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Delaware."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 173"
citation: "Delaware HB 173 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Michael F. Smith", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-06"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d5a6e60-6d06-4283-8bc3-e934d8a9a157"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68660"
source_hash: "9a463d5f4c8a83718178f5d23b6cb15c6a51b1f233e8bea25a1e2b54619f7cb8"
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 173 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATION ENROLLMENT OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS.
This Act allows the parent or guardian of a military-connected student to preliminarily enroll the student by remote registration in a school district where the parent or guardian is in the active military of the United States or in full-time status during active service with a force of the Delaware National Guard, if the parent or guardian is being transferred to Delaware under military orders and is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Delaware.
## 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=68660&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB173)
2. **HA 1 to HB 173** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78760&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-05-06** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-03** Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-08** Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-08** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-08** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/1d5a6e60-6d06-4283-8bc3-e934d8a9a157`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).