---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS."
description: "This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 119"
citation: "Delaware HB 119 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kendra Johnson", "Larry Lambert", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherae'a Moore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-03"
last_action: "2021-10-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78805"
source_hash: "0280a1b5ecc304be1362ffc3fad1a11cdefde296a83e2e98444d3202c17238f3"
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 119 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS.

This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

## 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=78805&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB119)
2. **HA 1 to HB 119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78967&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-24** Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-24** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-10-27** 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/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).