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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREWORKS; EXCEPTIONS.	This bill makes a technical correction to House Bill 53 enacted earlier this session. It would make the original intent clear that these firework devices can be sold and used on July 4, December 31, and January 1.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 445	Delaware HB 445 (149)	bill		enacted	Dave G. Lawson Joseph E. Miro	1	8	2	2018-06-06	2018-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/840b11d7-932f-4572-9756-fd0e327e01b9	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26755	6c26ca6b70955dc9fabc61bee20ccedfb13344bf42f8596235b25401b44a7351	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 445 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREWORKS; EXCEPTIONS.

This bill makes a technical correction to House Bill 53 enacted earlier this session. It would make the original intent clear that these firework devices can be sold and used on July 4, December 31, and January 1.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-06 Introduced in House and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee introduction
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-06-21 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-28 Rules Suspended in Senate
• 2018-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-06-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/840b11d7-932f-4572-9756-fd0e327e01b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).