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HCR75 • 2025

HONORING THE YOUNG WOMEN FROM ACROSS THE STATE OF DELAWARE PARTICIPATING IN THE 2025 SESSION OF DELAWARE GIRLS STATE.

HONORING THE YOUNG WOMEN FROM ACROSS THE STATE OF DELAWARE PARTICIPATING IN THE 2025 SESSION OF DELAWARE GIRLS STATE.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Minor-Brown
Last action
2025-06-18
Official status
Passed 6/18/25
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers, but no effective date is listed because resolutions typically take effect immediately upon passage or do not have a standard effective date like laws.

Honoring Young Women at the 2025 Delaware Girls State Session

This resolution officially recognizes and congratulates high school students from across Delaware who participated in the 2025 session of Delaware Girls State.

What This Bill Does

  • Recognizes young women from public and private high schools for attending the 2025 session of Delaware Girls State at Legislative Hall.
  • Notes that participants receive hands-on training about how state laws are made and how government works.
  • Lists the names of specific students who participated in the program along with their home schools.
  • Thanks the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Delaware for sponsoring the educational event.
  • Requires copies of this resolution to be given to each student participant and to the group that sponsored the event.

Who It Names or Affects

  • High school students from across Delaware who attended the 2025 Girls State session.
  • The American Legion Auxiliary Department of Delaware, which sponsors the program.

Terms To Know

Concurrent Resolution
A formal statement passed by both chambers of a legislature that expresses an official opinion or honor but does not create new laws.
Legislative Hall
The building in Dover, Delaware, where the state government meets and where this program took place.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This resolution does not create new laws or change existing rules for schools or students.
  • It expresses hope that some participants may become elected officials but does not guarantee future outcomes.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced in House

  2. 2025-06-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed In House by Voice Vote

  3. 2025-06-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT

Official Summary Text

HONORING THE YOUNG WOMEN FROM ACROSS THE STATE OF DELAWARE PARTICIPATING IN THE 2025 SESSION OF DELAWARE GIRLS STATE.
This concurrent resolution recognizes and honors the young women of Delaware participating in the 2025 session of Delaware Girls State.

Current Bill Text

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SPONSOR:

Rep. Minor-Brown & Rep. Harris & Rep. Osienski & Rep. Dukes & Rep. Spiegelman on behalf of all Representatives & Sen. Sokola & Sen. Townsend & Sen. Lockman & Sen. Hocker & Sen. Pettyjohn on behalf of all Senators

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 75

HONORING THE YOUNG WOMEN FROM ACROSS THE STATE OF DELAWARE PARTICIPATING IN THE 2025 SESSION OF DELAWARE GIRLS STATE.

WHEREAS, during the week of June 15, 2025, young women from across the State of Delaware, students at the State's public and private high schools, come to Legislative Hall in Dover to participate in the 2025 session of Delaware Girls State; and

WHEREAS, during their stay here, these young women will receive valuable hands-on training and experience in the legislative process and the ways of State government, which will serve them in good stead in their later lives; and

WHEREAS, the experience they receive during Girls State will prove especially useful to those among their number who go on to assume leadership roles in government or seek elective office in the future; and

WHEREAS, the young women participating in the 2025 session of Girls State include:

Eesha Swaminathan

Appoquinimink High School

Germaine Tuete

Appoquinimink High School

Kathrine Wang

Archmere Academy

Rebecca Wang

Archmere Academy

Jillian Baird

Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Stella Mulik

Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Jasmine Blackwell

Caesar Rodney High School

Kailey Middleton

Caesar Rodney High school

Nahsima Gomia

Caesar Rodney High School

Alex Ellis

Cape Henlopen High School

Kate Liebl

Cape Henlopen High School

Madison Layfield

Cape Henlopen High School

Hailie Mercedes Rosario

Conrad Schools of Science

Sofia Martin

Conrad Schools of Science

Sadie Heiger

Delaware Military Academy

Veronica Holena

Delaware Military Academy

Lori Nguyen

Delmar High School

Abigail Sweet

Lake Forest High School

Kaylee McDowell

Lake Forest High School

Jailynn Lester

Middletown High School

Dhivya Muthupalaniappan

MOT Charter High School

Bridget Schneider

Mount Pleasant High School

Cadence Moyer

Mount Pleasant High School

Amelia Ann Butt

Newark Charter School

Sadie Polk

Newark Charter School

Violet Tran

Newark Charter School

Zahra Ali

Newark Charter School

Alina Wang

Newark Charter School

Elizabeth Cebula

Odessa High School

Jillian Kersey

Odessa High School

Ruby Wall

Odessa High School

Lauren Tyree

Saint Mark’s High School

Gabriella Charles

Smyrna High School

Hadassah Pierre-Louis

Smyrna High School

Maria Gutierrez Carcamo

Sussex Central High School

Yazmin Ramos

Sussex Central High School

Daphny Chilel Gonzalez

Sussex Central High School

Gine Degand

Sussex Technical High School

Leala Lynn Guarino

Sussex Technical High School

Saasy Bojja

The Charter School of Wilmington

Sanjana Thottempudi

The Charter School of Wilmington

Hannah Shinoj

The Charter School of Wilmington

Tovah Dockens

Thomas McKean Highschool

Maryjo Crisostomo

Thomas McKean Highschool

Jessina Crute

William Penn High School

WHEREAS, during their week-long session these young women will learn many of the details of the process whereby a bill becomes a law, and debate and discuss many issues both timely and of great importance to the State of Delaware; and

WHEREAS, throughout the week the Girls State delegates will be deeply involved in a study of such subjects as conduct of elections, the operation for the legislative caucus and committee systems, majority and minority positions, and many other aspects of the political process, all of which will give them valuable knowledge of the manner in which the American system of representative democracy operates; and

WHEREAS, the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Delaware has once again sponsored this important educational program, as it has done for many years, thereby displaying a deep dedication to the American system of government and to the essential task of ensuring that our youth understand and appreciate that system.

NOW, THEREFORE:

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 153rd General Assembly of the State of Delaware, the Senate thereof concurring therein, that its members do hereby commend each of the participants in the 2025 Girls State session for their hard work and extend to each sincere congratulations on a very successful session at Legislative Hall.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate do hereby extend to every participant sincere best wishes for success in all future endeavors, together with the hope that at least a few of these fine young Delawareans may one day find themselves again in the House or Senate chamber as duly elected representatives of their fellow citizens.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate do hereby commend and thank the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Delaware for its sponsorship of this outstanding program.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution shall be presented to each of the delegates of the 2025 Session of Girls State, and to the sponsor of the event, the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Delaware.

SYNOPSIS

This concurrent resolution recognizes and honors the young women of Delaware participating in the 2025 session of Delaware Girls State.