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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
+description: "Currently, the age for wait staff to serve alcohol to a patron is 19 years old. This Act lowers the age of persons permitted to serve alcohol from 19 to 18 years of age for all establishments licensed for the on-premises sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor except taverns and taprooms."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 365"
+citation: "Delaware HB 365 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-04-12"
+last_action: "2018-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e203893f-6897-46a6-9f74-f2e7be45e443"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26479"
+source_hash: "6cbcfeec4fd77fb87c83fb300f52510fa9b30026878e25c3173191afc9a1a9bf"
+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 365 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
+
+Currently, the age for wait staff to serve alcohol to a patron is 19 years old. This Act lowers the age of persons permitted to serve alcohol from 19 to 18 years of age for all establishments licensed for the on-premises sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor except taverns and taprooms.
+
+## 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=26479&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB365)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-04-12** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-10** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-05-10** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-07-17** 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/e203893f-6897-46a6-9f74-f2e7be45e443`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+