---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUAL ACCOMMODATIONS."
description: "This Act makes the Delaware equal accommodation law internally consistent, correctly organized, and aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act (\"ADA\")."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Delaware HB 354 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Edward S. Osienski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-27"
last_action: "2018-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65f6b041-80a1-4995-995f-28fff8bc487f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26423"
source_hash: "15abca81ac6c49aed663f5e5096bf5a7d9559d039fb1b924e38b586a12f72792"
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 354 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUAL ACCOMMODATIONS.

This Act makes the Delaware equal accommodation law internally consistent, correctly organized, and aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA").

## 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=26423&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB354)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-27** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-09** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-09-17** 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/65f6b041-80a1-4995-995f-28fff8bc487f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).