---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM."
description: "This Act creates the crime of “discharging a firearm at a dwelling, place of worship, vehicle, or place of business.” The offense is a class E felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Delaware HB 123 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel B. Short", "Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Josue O Ortega", "Nicole Poore", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Ray Seigfried", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-17"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0cf3cd2-72a5-4e21-b09b-ae13de8dd95c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142139"
source_hash: "a6ae336ba7bef627e5210ad91f782c306622b98913ad9851dc476e960de78344"
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 123 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM.

This Act creates the crime of “discharging a firearm at a dwelling, place of worship, vehicle, or place of business.” The offense is a class E felony.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HA 1 to HB 123** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142486&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **30–1** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-17** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 123 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 123 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 30 YES 1 NO 5 NOT VOTING 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-17** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-08-20** 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/c0cf3cd2-72a5-4e21-b09b-ae13de8dd95c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).