republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-300.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS.	This bill makes it a crime to sell, transfer, buy, receive or possess a trigger crank or bump-fire device designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle, making such weapon function more like an automatic weapon. A bump stock was used by the gunman in Las Vegas in October 2017. Violation of this provision is a Class E felony.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 300	Delaware HB 300 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Charles Potter Jr. Debra Heffernan Harris B. McDowell Paul S. Baumbach Valerie Longhurst	1	31	5	2017-12-14	2018-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/080f9bc8-ee23-42cd-b908-e6a9c02a70b0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26218	4be6042352e4f7a192ad0915dbeb7bb0c20a8e8eec9184c6814bd10f50ae9a7a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 300 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS.

This bill makes it a crime to sell, transfer, buy, receive or possess a trigger crank or bump-fire device designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle, making such weapon function more like an automatic weapon. A bump stock was used by the gunman in Las Vegas in October 2017. Violation of this provision is a Class E felony.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–4 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 36–2 (pass) · lower
• SM — 25–3 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-14 Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-01-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-01 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO passage
• 2018-01-24 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-03-08 Amendment HA 2 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-03-08 Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-03-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 300 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-03-08 Amendment HA 2 to HB 300 - Stricken in House
• 2018-03-08 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 3 NO 11 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-03-09 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-03-15 Amendment SA 1 to HB 300 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 10 YES 9 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT amendment-failure
• 2018-03-15 Amendment SA 2 to HB 300 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2018-03-15 Amendment SA 3 to HB 300 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 9 YES 11 NO 1 ABSENT amendment-failure
• 2018-03-15 Amendment SA 4 to HB 300 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2018-03-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-03-27 Amendment HA 3 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Amendment HA 4 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 3 to HB 300 - Stricken in House
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 4 to HB 300 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 5 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 1 to HA 5 to HB 300 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 1 to HA 5 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-05-01 Amendment HA 5 to HB 300 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-05-01 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO passage
• 2018-06-05 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2018-06-05 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2018-06-05 Amendment SA 5 to HB 300 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO amendment-passage
• 2018-06-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-06-14 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 2 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/080f9bc8-ee23-42cd-b908-e6a9c02a70b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).