---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
description: "This Act allows for the delivery of alcoholic liquors from a restaurant, brewpub, tavern, taproom, or other entity with a valid on-premise license. In addition, this Act provides that the acts of a licensed consumer delivery permittee or a delivery driver are not attributable to the retailer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Delaware SB 166 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-06"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7b7c7a7-953e-4201-ad89-4da7029def9f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140526"
source_hash: "072e7fc3d2bfdec45a66876d29af5d471dc9ff879ddf399db4fb751849c3a3ba"
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 166 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

This Act allows for the delivery of alcoholic liquors from a restaurant, brewpub, tavern, taproom, or other entity with a valid on-premise license. In addition, this Act provides that the acts of a licensed consumer delivery permittee or a delivery driver are not attributable to the retailer.

## 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=140526&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB166)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **18–3** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **34–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-21** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 NO `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 2 NO 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-26** 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/a7b7c7a7-953e-4201-ad89-4da7029def9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).