---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
description: "This Act permits wedding venues and persons renting a premises for other social gatherings to allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises, if licensed by the Commissioner as a bottle club."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Delaware SB 46 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Dave G. Lawson", "Shannon Morris"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-22"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/102df1a3-ae2c-4d66-813d-8a44572dec76"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48322"
source_hash: "59b4bb0d894de0ea1fbae23d183d02316182f303b0a016fd139809f61d0d0d8e"
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 46 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

This Act permits wedding venues and persons renting a premises for other social gatherings to allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises, if licensed by the Commissioner as a bottle club.

## 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=48322&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB46)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Shannon Morris — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-22** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-25** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/102df1a3-ae2c-4d66-813d-8a44572dec76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).