republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-44.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERAGE POSSESSION OR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.	This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individual’s certified criminal record.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 44	Delaware SB 44 (150)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride Franklin D. Cooke Laura V. Sturgeon Melissa Minor-Brown Peter C. Schwartzkopf	2	9	3	2019-05-08	2019-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2a43f127-6467-4451-bcb1-8d01495752eb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47441	12a046f5174b881245b7659a9658ae4ed8e9f5cf94a62dad2b6ec09bde904410	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 44 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERAGE POSSESSION OR CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.

This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individual’s certified criminal record.

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 SB 44 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 34–6 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-08 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-05-30 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to SB 44 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a43f127-6467-4451-bcb1-8d01495752eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).