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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS."
+description: "This Act would move the 2024 presidential primary election for major political parties from the fourth Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday of April."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 149"
+citation: "Delaware SB 149 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Michael Ramone", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-01"
+last_action: "2023-07-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68f0ec63-4ca2-4730-80a8-a3e995d301ae"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140467"
+source_hash: "0157877f1c89c29b58dfac7cb02ed3aaf689779dc41912698a5610e95f09ec4e"
+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 149 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
+
+This Act would move the 2024 presidential primary election for major political parties from the fourth Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday of April.
+
+## 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=140467&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB149)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140527&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
+- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 149 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 149 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-06-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-15** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-07-21** 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/68f0ec63-4ca2-4730-80a8-a3e995d301ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+