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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERAGE POSSESSION OR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL."
+description: "This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individual’s certified criminal record."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 44"
+citation: "Delaware SB 44 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-05-08"
+last_action: "2019-07-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a43f127-6467-4451-bcb1-8d01495752eb"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47441"
+source_hash: "12a046f5174b881245b7659a9658ae4ed8e9f5cf94a62dad2b6ec09bde904410"
+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 SB 44 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERAGE POSSESSION OR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.
+
+This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individual’s certified criminal record.
+
+## 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=47441&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB44)
+2. **HA 1 to SB 44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47760&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **34–6** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David B. McBride — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-05-30** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to SB 44 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-07-23** 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/2a43f127-6467-4451-bcb1-8d01495752eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+