republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-79.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE REGARDING DEFAULT BEVERAGES IN CHILDRENS’ MEALS IN RESTAURANTS.	This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination children’s meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It does not prohibit the restaurant’s ability to sell, or a customer’s ability to choose, a substitute or alternative beverage as-requested by a customer. This effectively creates an “opt in” instead of an “opt out” for many sugar-rich drink choices for children.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 79	Delaware HB 79 (150)	bill		enacted	Catherine Cloutier Franklin D. Cooke Laura V. Sturgeon Melissa Minor-Brown Michael F. Smith S. Elizabeth Lockman Stephanie T. Bolden Valerie Longhurst	3	11	2	2019-05-30	2019-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/5d19a03b-4bcb-4cb3-8a44-9620fbc14e5d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47551	b4c355271984777873bc2e83a4d873c1721b693c95844790cd43f57c2427bb88	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 79 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE REGARDING DEFAULT BEVERAGES IN CHILDRENS’ MEALS IN RESTAURANTS.

This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination children’s meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It does not prohibit the restaurant’s ability to sell, or a customer’s ability to choose, a substitute or alternative beverage as-requested by a customer. This effectively creates an “opt in” instead of an “opt out” for many sugar-rich drink choices for children.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 79 (committee substitute) — source
3. HA 2 to HB 79 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 28–11 (pass) · lower
• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-30 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage-unfavorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-20 Amendment HA 2 to HB 79 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 11 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-21 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO passage
• 2019-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d19a03b-4bcb-4cb3-8a44-9620fbc14e5d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).