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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE REGARDING DEFAULT BEVERAGES IN CHILDRENS’ MEALS IN RESTAURANTS."
+description: "This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination children’s meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It does not prohibit the restaurant’s ability to sell, or a customer’s ability to choose, a substitute or alternative beverage as-requested by a customer. This effectively creates an “opt in” instead of an “opt out” for many sugar-rich drink choices for children."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 79"
+citation: "Delaware HB 79 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Catherine Cloutier", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Michael F. Smith", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Stephanie T. Bolden", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-05-30"
+last_action: "2019-07-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d19a03b-4bcb-4cb3-8a44-9620fbc14e5d"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47551"
+source_hash: "b4c355271984777873bc2e83a4d873c1721b693c95844790cd43f57c2427bb88"
+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 79 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE REGARDING DEFAULT BEVERAGES IN CHILDRENS’ MEALS IN RESTAURANTS.
+
+This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination children’s meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It does not prohibit the restaurant’s ability to sell, or a customer’s ability to choose, a substitute or alternative beverage as-requested by a customer. This effectively creates an “opt in” instead of an “opt out” for many sugar-rich drink choices for children.
+
+## 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=47551&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB79)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47774&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+3. **HA 2 to HB 79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47786&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **28–11** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-30** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage-unfavorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-06-20** Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 11 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
+- **2019-07-17** 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/5d19a03b-4bcb-4cb3-8a44-9620fbc14e5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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