---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE."
description: "This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 88"
citation: "Delaware HB 88 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John A. Kowalko", "Kimberly Williams", "Larry Lambert", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sean Matthews", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d10ebdc-48e0-4636-96a0-46eae0f68f56"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48343"
source_hash: "2b6187a95028eb22e8e481bb39cbc63aad0fc4f16f8b868f87db5cee9266194a"
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 88 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.

This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment.

## 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=48343&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB88)

## Votes

- SM — **26–15** (pass) · lower
- SM — **13–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2021-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2021-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO `passage`
- **2021-09-30** 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/4d10ebdc-48e0-4636-96a0-46eae0f68f56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).