republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-73.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 AND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STANDARD TIME FOR THIS STATE.	Daylight saving time has existed in one form or another for over 100 years. In that time, Delawareans have become accustomed to the 8 months of daylight saving time each year. This Act provides for Delaware to permanently remain on daylight saving time.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 73	Delaware SB 73 (150)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David B. McBride David Bentz	2	8	2	2019-04-15	2019-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/039d4265-b25c-4d4e-ba53-6e21c5bceae3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47353	1e9de8e980574ab350203fc50247f2a2d2dc61d620514e8c16e7ef000abd5cd4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 73 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 AND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STANDARD TIME FOR THIS STATE.

Daylight saving time has existed in one form or another for over 100 years. In that time, Delawareans have become accustomed to the 8 months of daylight saving time each year. This Act provides for Delaware to permanently remain on daylight saving time.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 73 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 35–5 (pass) · lower
• SM — 17–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-15 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 73 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2019-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 NO passage
• 2019-06-13 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2019-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-08-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/039d4265-b25c-4d4e-ba53-6e21c5bceae3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).