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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS."
+description: "This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 119"
+citation: "Delaware HB 119 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kendra Johnson", "Larry Lambert", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-06-03"
+last_action: "2021-10-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78805"
+source_hash: "0280a1b5ecc304be1362ffc3fad1a11cdefde296a83e2e98444d3202c17238f3"
+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 119 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
+
+This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
+
+## 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=78805&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB119)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78967&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-24** Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-06-24** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-30** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-10-27** 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/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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