---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS."
description: "This Act would move the 2024 presidential primary election for major political parties from the fourth Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday of April."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 149"
citation: "Delaware SB 149 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Michael Ramone", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68f0ec63-4ca2-4730-80a8-a3e995d301ae"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140467"
source_hash: "0157877f1c89c29b58dfac7cb02ed3aaf689779dc41912698a5610e95f09ec4e"
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 149 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

This Act would move the 2024 presidential primary election for major political parties from the fourth Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday of April.

## 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=140467&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB149)
2. **SA 1 to SB 149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140527&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 149 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 149 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-15** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-07-21** 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/68f0ec63-4ca2-4730-80a8-a3e995d301ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).