republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-56.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.	This Act modernizes the process and requirements for issuance of liquor licenses for off premises consumption. The current process and requirements do not consider population growth. Minimum distance requirements are enhanced while increases in population growth will now be considered to arrive at a safety and convenience balance. This Act also grandfathers existing licensees into the current process.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 56	Delaware SB 56 (150)	bill		enacted	Nicole Poore Trey Paradee William Bush	1	7	2	2019-03-20	2019-07-10	openstates	ocd-bill/66073190-8f7c-4b42-9b8e-7420092ad8af	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47244	f5ffc141774645eb0960769738d757e9a34497f38b5ae58127194cad4ed29afd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 56 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

This Act modernizes the process and requirements for issuance of liquor licenses for off premises consumption. The current process and requirements do not consider population growth. Minimum distance requirements are enhanced while increases in population growth will now be considered to arrive at a safety and convenience balance. This Act also grandfathers existing licensees into the current process.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 12–8 (pass) · upper
• SM — 26–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-20 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 8 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-04-17 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-04 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 14 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2019-07-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/66073190-8f7c-4b42-9b8e-7420092ad8af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).