republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-119.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS.	This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 119	Delaware HB 119 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Franklin D. Cooke Kendra Johnson Larry Lambert Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha S. Elizabeth Lockman Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker Stephanie T. Bolden	2	13	2	2021-06-03	2021-10-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78805	0280a1b5ecc304be1362ffc3fad1a11cdefde296a83e2e98444d3202c17238f3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 119 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS.

This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to 1. The two floating holidays were created by the 145th General Assembly as replacements for Presidents Day and Columbus Day. This Act replaces the floating holiday that replaced Columbus Day with a legal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

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 119 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-24 Amendment HA 1 to HB 119 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-24 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-30 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-10-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e04965e-aa79-4aca-98a0-4c14a77f2f4b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).