---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE COCKTAIL."
description: "This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 444"
citation: "Delaware HB 444 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-06-06"
last_action: "2024-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd20e180-af61-4f57-af41-1ca8d331a350"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141510"
source_hash: "0b8ed45a3aa8ddf122dbe40817c3c21b86a2e06874975c77f30cc97f1988d0cd"
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 444 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE COCKTAIL.

This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.

## 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=141510&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB444)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **33–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-08-09** 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/cd20e180-af61-4f57-af41-1ca8d331a350`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).