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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS."
description: "This Act requires public institutions of higher learning to grant credit for advanced placement examination scores of 3 or higher. An instution may require a score higher than 3 if the credit is to be used for meeting a course requirement for a particular major or program, provided that the student can receive course credit for that examination in an area outside of the students major or program area. The institution must publish its advance placement score policies on its website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 116"
citation: "Delaware HB 116 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ruth Briggs King", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-06"
last_action: "2024-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3e0185d-579d-4ffd-9d13-fbb9e6333b6d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130174"
source_hash: "e0c37b6bfd4637076dca63d1f1fb77ad0a02f485fffcb3aace086a846bc9d609"
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 116 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS.
This Act requires public institutions of higher learning to grant credit for advanced placement examination scores of 3 or higher. An instution may require a score higher than 3 if the credit is to be used for meeting a course requirement for a particular major or program, provided that the student can receive course credit for that examination in an area outside of the students major or program area. The institution must publish its advance placement score policies on its website.
## 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=130174&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB116)
## Votes
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-04-06** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 7 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-05-19** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-02-28** 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/d3e0185d-579d-4ffd-9d13-fbb9e6333b6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).