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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MARIJUANA."
+description: "Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana a civil violation for juveniles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 45"
+citation: "Delaware SB 45 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John A. Kowalko", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-20"
+last_action: "2019-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5df22cf8-0515-43c0-b167-615288e076a4"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47243"
+source_hash: "4bfe9d58dcb60c2cbe1b41ea1aff301f723250010e242785202a02278e4d8bf2"
+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 45 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MARIJUANA.
+
+Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana a civil violation for juveniles.
+
+## 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=47243&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB45)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 45** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47661&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **34–7** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **13–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David B. McBride — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-20** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 45 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-06-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 45 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 6 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO `passage`
+- **2019-07-31** 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/5df22cf8-0515-43c0-b167-615288e076a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+