republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-241.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 5, TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TAXES ON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.	This Act increases the State’s alcoholic beverage tax rates. The rate for beer increases by 2¢ per 12 ounce can. The rate for wine increases by approximately 3¢ per 5 ounce serving. The rate for spirits containing more than 25% ethyl alcohol by volume increases by 15¢ per 750 ml bottle.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 241	Delaware HB 241 (149)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride John J. Viola Margaret Rose Henry Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2017-06-15	2017-07-03	openstates	ocd-bill/d384fe80-3fa6-486e-8e4c-c2bd747b485c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25990	e52a054394d5caa2c65bf847ef8fb943ae864985c3f87315404021b445d9b920	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 241 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 5, TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TAXES ON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

This Act increases the State’s alcoholic beverage tax rates. The rate for beer increases by 2¢ per 12 ounce can. The rate for wine increases by approximately 3¢ per 5 ounce serving. The rate for spirits containing more than 25% ethyl alcohol by volume increases by 15¢ per 750 ml bottle.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 13–7 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 26–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• John J. Viola — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-15 Introduced and Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 241 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 On Its Merits, 5 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2017-07-02 Amendment HA 1 to HB 241 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-07-02 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 13 NO 2 NOT VOTING passage
• 2017-07-02 Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d384fe80-3fa6-486e-8e4c-c2bd747b485c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).