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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEREAVEMENT LEAVE."
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description: "This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 279"
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citation: "Delaware HB 279 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Daniel B. Short", "Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-01-09"
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last_action: "2024-08-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3dd4aeab-8a79-40b8-964b-be1975ba49c6"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140836"
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source_hash: "7b4fa0c18835b8006b48de8a9fd04b7ac429f4a1368b463675234c0054e0775f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 279 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEREAVEMENT LEAVE.
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This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140836&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB279)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 279** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141030&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–1** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-09** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2024-03-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-03-12** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-03-12** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2024-08-02** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3dd4aeab-8a79-40b8-964b-be1975ba49c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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