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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE COCKTAIL."
+description: "This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 444"
+citation: "Delaware HB 444 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-06-06"
+last_action: "2024-08-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd20e180-af61-4f57-af41-1ca8d331a350"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141510"
+source_hash: "0b8ed45a3aa8ddf122dbe40817c3c21b86a2e06874975c77f30cc97f1988d0cd"
+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 444 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE COCKTAIL.
+
+This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.
+
+## 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=141510&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB444)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **33–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-08-09** 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/cd20e180-af61-4f57-af41-1ca8d331a350`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+