---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN THE CITY OF NEWARK."
description: "This Act allows criminal charges of using, consuming, or possessing other than a personal use quantity of a marijuana or other substance containing tetrahydrocannabinols and charges of public consumption of the same, where the offense is committed in the City of Newark by a person over 18 years of age, to be heard initially at either the Alderman’s Court or in the Court of Common Pleas. This Act likewise allows a civil violation for a person under the age of 21 using, consuming, or possessing a personal use quantity of a marijuana or other substance containing tetrahydrocannabinols to be heard initially at the Alderman’s Court where the violation is committed in the City of Newark by a person over 18 years of age."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 33"
citation: "Delaware HB 33 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Mara Gorman", "Melanie Ross Levin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7768ba40-1cd2-4b27-b786-bd8972fc71eb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141758"
source_hash: "face11e202cee5ccb22126ba660c16b17d453db6270b1fb2034b62a383d257c3"
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 33 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN THE CITY OF NEWARK.

This Act allows criminal charges of using, consuming, or possessing other than a personal use quantity of a marijuana or other substance containing tetrahydrocannabinols and charges of public consumption of the same, where the offense is committed in the City of Newark by a person over 18 years of age, to be heard initially at either the Alderman’s Court or in the Court of Common Pleas. This Act likewise allows a civil violation for a person under the age of 21 using, consuming, or possessing a personal use quantity of a marijuana or other substance containing tetrahydrocannabinols to be heard initially at the Alderman’s Court where the violation is committed in the City of Newark by a person over 18 years of age.

## Version chain

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

1. **HA 1 to HB 33** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141837&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 33 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-01-30** Amendment HA 1 to HB 33 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-01-30** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-04-14** 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/7768ba40-1cd2-4b27-b786-bd8972fc71eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).