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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 242, VOLUME 81 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO SELLING OR POSSESSING FIREWORKS; EXCEPTIONS. This bill removes the 3 year sunset provision that was part of House Bill No. 53, as amended, enacted on May 10, 2018 of the 149th General Assembly. This will allow the on-going use of certain ground-based and hand-held sparklers. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 150 HB 247 Delaware HB 247 (150)
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Delaware HB 247 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 242, VOLUME 81 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO SELLING OR POSSESSING FIREWORKS; EXCEPTIONS.

This bill removes the 3 year sunset provision that was part of House Bill No. 53, as amended, enacted on May 10, 2018 of the 149th General Assembly. This will allow the on-going use of certain ground-based and hand-held sparklers.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 174 (pass) · upper
  • SM — 410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • David B. McBride — primary (person)
  • Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
  • Michael Ramone — primary (person)
  • Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
  • Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
  • David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
  • Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
  • Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
  • Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
  • Shannon Morris — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-06-25 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2019-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2019-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2019-07-01 Suspension of Rules in Senate
  • 2019-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 NO passage
  • 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc9a047a-3727-435a-bc8b-6b4df6492ad1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).