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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS."
description: "Food and drink establishments suffered great losses since March, 2020 due to the pandemic including millions of dollars in lost sales and the loss of an tens of thousands of jobs in this State. This Act extends the provisions contained in HB 349 from the 150th General Assembly until March 31, 2022 with the goal of continuing the efforts to try and mitigate the losses this industry has suffered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Delaware HB 1 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Ernesto B. Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-12-18"
last_action: "2021-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4c88483-5330-482d-84c7-b33f2821493e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48222"
source_hash: "1d7198df627bce2c93f0fc4c746a7b5547060de100a1e9afa21b84cfb972435a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 1 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
Food and drink establishments suffered great losses since March, 2020 due to the pandemic including millions of dollars in lost sales and the loss of an tens of thousands of jobs in this State. This Act extends the provisions contained in HB 349 from the 150th General Assembly until March 31, 2022 with the goal of continuing the efforts to try and mitigate the losses this industry has suffered.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48222&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB1)
2. **SA 1 to HB 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48447&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-18** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-01-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-01-28** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Amendment SA 1 to HB 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Amendment SA 1 to HB 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-23** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4c88483-5330-482d-84c7-b33f2821493e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).