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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES."
+description: "Currently, the microbrewery statute permits a business to own 1 microbrewery and up to 2 brewpubs (a microbrewery that also has a restaurant as part of its business). This legislation would permit a microbrewery to choose to operate either 2 brewpubs or 1 additional microbrewery and 1 brewpub, under common ownership. The total number of licenses the business could hold remains 3, but it allows the business to choose 2 microbreweries and 1 brewpub, or 1 microbrewery and 2 brewpubs. A microbrewery can also choose to operate just one establishment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "HB 170"
+citation: "Delaware HB 170 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Josue O Ortega", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Marie Pinkney", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-05-15"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b3b825a-5e55-4b2e-aa65-53ee4c0e9e02"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142295"
+source_hash: "7ec06997d6e8b9ef9b93945116b180ad50c7b839e8a946a0f8128f0af6a9c865"
+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 170 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES.
+
+Currently, the microbrewery statute permits a business to own 1 microbrewery and up to 2 brewpubs (a microbrewery that also has a restaurant as part of its business). This legislation would permit a microbrewery to choose to operate either 2 brewpubs or 1 additional microbrewery and 1 brewpub, under common ownership. The total number of licenses the business could hold remains 3, but it allows the business to choose 2 microbreweries and 1 brewpub, or 1 microbrewery and 2 brewpubs. A microbrewery can also choose to operate just one establishment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-15** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-20** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-22** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-06-24** 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/5b3b825a-5e55-4b2e-aa65-53ee4c0e9e02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+