---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
description: "The Bill amends Title 4 to permit licensed Delaware craft distilleries, breweries, and wineries the ability to sell products produced by other Delaware craft distilleries, breweries, and wineries for on-site consumption, only. The products sold must be purchased through the existing three-tier system (i.e., wholesalers or traditional retailers)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 373"
citation: "Delaware HB 373 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Jeff N. Spiegelman", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-17"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdea8ead-28bd-4ac0-9365-0e7908501109"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26488"
source_hash: "127499567b646aaecb99e766bb6fc695e49bb28fdd1f67faa2fa449f8612a87a"
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 373 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

The Bill amends Title 4 to permit licensed Delaware craft distilleries, breweries, and wineries the ability to sell products produced by other Delaware craft distilleries, breweries, and wineries for on-site consumption, only. The products sold must be purchased through the existing three-tier system (i.e., wholesalers or traditional retailers).

## 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=26488&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB373)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-17** 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 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-26** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-04-29** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-07** 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/bdea8ead-28bd-4ac0-9365-0e7908501109`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).