---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LABOR PEACE AGREEMENTS AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
description: "This Act requires medical marijuana compassion centers and safety compliance facilities that have 20 or more employees to have a labor peace agreement with 1 more bona fide labor organizations. This Act defines \"labor peace agreement\" as an agreement between an employer and a labor organization that, at a minimum, includes all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 280"
citation: "Delaware SB 280 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-03"
last_action: "2022-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b353265b-7199-40cd-a010-71cc2a681606"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109429"
source_hash: "54e066b926a4c685a6a79e6e573a97d45b1c8bb13b4759ddf59df9cbed3557d9"
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 280 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LABOR PEACE AGREEMENTS AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

This Act requires medical marijuana compassion centers and safety compliance facilities that have 20 or more employees to have a labor peace agreement with 1 more bona fide labor organizations. This Act defines "labor peace agreement" as an agreement between an employer and a labor organization that, at a minimum, includes all of the following:

## 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=109429&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB280)

## Votes

- SM — **32–9** (pass) · lower
- SM — **14–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-03** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2022-06-02** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 9 NO `passage`
- **2022-10-07** 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/b353265b-7199-40cd-a010-71cc2a681606`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).