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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICIES FOR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "This Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting period in which academic institutions must report information on campus sexual assaults from the calendar year to the academic year. Finally, this Act requires the DOJ to post the annual reports from the previous 5 years on its website and to include the aggregate data from the previous 5 years in each report so that data trends are easily identified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 308"
citation: "Delaware HB 308 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8327cc5-93f1-446c-bf5e-163f6c3fb3d3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140945"
source_hash: "b0e61b4220077aa84202aa2afd24453f79255fe6cc2e310bee81b4e0814b36b7"
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 308 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICIES FOR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
This Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting period in which academic institutions must report information on campus sexual assaults from the calendar year to the academic year. Finally, this Act requires the DOJ to post the annual reports from the previous 5 years on its website and to include the aggregate data from the previous 5 years in each report so that data trends are easily identified.
## 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=140945&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB308)
2. **HA 1 to HB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141256&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **361** (pass) · lower
- 3/4 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 308 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-23** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/b8327cc5-93f1-446c-bf5e-163f6c3fb3d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).