---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MARIJUANA."
description: "Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana a civil violation for juveniles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "Delaware SB 45 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John A. Kowalko", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5df22cf8-0515-43c0-b167-615288e076a4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47243"
source_hash: "4bfe9d58dcb60c2cbe1b41ea1aff301f723250010e242785202a02278e4d8bf2"
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 45 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MARIJUANA.

Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana a civil violation for juveniles.

## 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=47243&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB45)
2. **SA 1 to SB 45** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47661&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **34–7** (pass) · lower
- SM — **13–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-20** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 45 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 45 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 6 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2019-07-31** 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/5df22cf8-0515-43c0-b167-615288e076a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).