Delaware Senate Bill 291 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-10)
Status: Passed on August 19 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-08-19 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act requires each school district and charter school to adopt a policy regarding appropriate relationships between school employees, contractors, coaches, and volunteers and students. The policy must include a provision establishing appropriate and inappropriate interactions; a prohibition against adult sexual misconduct; a prohibition against any sexual relationship between a school employee, contractor, coach, or volunteer and a student; an emphasis on the mandatory reporting obligations under § 903 of Title 16; a procedure for notifying the Department of Education and law enforcement of suspected adult sexual misconduct; guidelines for the preferred and prohibited methods of electronic communication; notice that substantiated incidents of adult sexual misconduct will be reported in future reference checks; and a provision requiring the development of hiring practices to screen for adult sexual misconduct. This Act will be implemented for the 2023-2024 school year.

An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Policy Regarding Appropriate Relationships With Students.

Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]
Sen. Colin Bonini [R]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Sen. David Lawson [R]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]
Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]
Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Sen. Bryant Richardson [R]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. William Bush [D]
Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. Bryan Shupe [R]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]

2022-06-28 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-05-19 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-08-19		Signed by Governor
2022-06-28		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2022-06-15		Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits
2022-06-02		Assigned to Education Committee in House
2022-05-19		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2022-05-18		Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2022-05-09		Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109467
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=109467&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB291
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53267
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53744