republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-242.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCT, INCLUDING VAPOR PRODUCT, TAXATION AND LICENSING.	Vapor products, commonly known as e-cigarettes or vape products, are increasing in popularity. This Act adds a definition of vapor products to Chapter 53, Title 30 (regarding Tobacco Product Tax), includes vapor products as a type of tobacco product, and makes other amendments to the Chapter to require those who deal in vapor products to obtain licenses just like those who deal in traditional tobacco products and to impose a tax on vapor products. This Act also increases the tax on tobacco products. Specifically, this Act does the following related to tobacco product and vapor product taxes:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 242	Delaware HB 242 (149)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride Debra Heffernan Margaret Rose Henry Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Valerie Longhurst	1	5	2	2017-06-15	2017-07-03	openstates	ocd-bill/30667012-7de4-4f5a-a23f-2dea05cdc58d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25991	7f6a2a78cea415be58e5ed9b5e5e49affe6711f7bc071d6536316d1f986c2e31	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 242 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCT, INCLUDING VAPOR PRODUCT, TAXATION AND LICENSING.

Vapor products, commonly known as e-cigarettes or vape products, are increasing in popularity. This Act adds a definition of vapor products to Chapter 53, Title 30 (regarding Tobacco Product Tax), includes vapor products as a type of tobacco product, and makes other amendments to the Chapter to require those who deal in vapor products to obtain licenses just like those who deal in traditional tobacco products and to impose a tax on vapor products. This Act also increases the tax on tobacco products. Specifically, this Act does the following related to tobacco product and vapor product taxes:

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 — 15–5 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 26–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — 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 Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 4 On Its Merits, 3 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2017-07-02 Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 11 NO 3 NOT VOTING passage
• 2017-07-02 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30667012-7de4-4f5a-a23f-2dea05cdc58d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).