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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ENROLLMENT PRIORITY OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS."
description: "This Act gives the dependent children of active military members, full-time Delaware National Guard members, and active duty members of a reserve component of the US military priority in choice and charter enrollment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Delaware HB 354 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David L. Wilson", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-28"
last_action: "2024-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/333a232b-7872-4de5-a42f-094dd7d0cb73"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141147"
source_hash: "dbd432b862ffc3d36b6438ac774aec7bcb89ae60bdfb3aa806a83d66baa310ce"
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 354 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ENROLLMENT PRIORITY OF MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENTS.
This Act gives the dependent children of active military members, full-time Delaware National Guard members, and active duty members of a reserve component of the US military priority in choice and charter enrollment.
## 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=141147&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB354)
2. **HA 1 to HB 354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141321&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-05-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-14** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-07-29** 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/333a232b-7872-4de5-a42f-094dd7d0cb73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).