---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
description: "This Act allows restaurants that sell ice cream containing up to 10% alcohol by volume to sell such ice cream without the requirement that the customer also purchase at least $10 of other food. This substitute differs from the original bill by limiting this exception only to ice cream and clarifying the alcohol amount by volume of being up to 10%."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 334"
citation: "Delaware SB 334 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-23"
last_action: "2022-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b689dd-d4f1-455a-b515-8f38db746ae0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129828"
source_hash: "d65552bae90260dbc4e22d77d450e04d214735f116dd7b75192f2251d45ca69d"
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 334 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

This Act allows restaurants that sell ice cream containing up to 10% alcohol by volume to sell such ice cream without the requirement that the customer also purchase at least $10 of other food. This substitute differs from the original bill by limiting this exception only to ice cream and clarifying the alcohol amount by volume of being up to 10%.

## 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=129828&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB334)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-23** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 334 `introduction`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-11-02** 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/05b689dd-d4f1-455a-b515-8f38db746ae0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).