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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE LOTTERY."
description: "This legislation updates the licensing requirements for gaming employees and vendors. In addition, it updates references in certain sections of the laws to reflect which law enforcement agencies are responsible for the duties as described in the Delaware Code. It also ensures that administrative and vendor costs necessary to run the Internet video lottery are deducted only once from the net proceeds derived from the Internet video lottery. Finally, this Act clarifies that the prohibition on selling a lottery ticket for a price greater than that fixed by the Director includes sports lottery tickets in addition to drawing lottery tickets and instant lottery tickets."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 201"
citation: "Delaware HB 201 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "Kyle Evans Gay"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-19"
last_action: "2021-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c4067b8-65b2-4b0d-8f07-df812206ac4b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78738"
source_hash: "83ebd9bb0180de95aefc01a3ee5e7964158a10a73e74a5f1e4d3398ff0d60bc5"
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 201 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE LOTTERY.
This legislation updates the licensing requirements for gaming employees and vendors. In addition, it updates references in certain sections of the laws to reflect which law enforcement agencies are responsible for the duties as described in the Delaware Code. It also ensures that administrative and vendor costs necessary to run the Internet video lottery are deducted only once from the net proceeds derived from the Internet video lottery. Finally, this Act clarifies that the prohibition on selling a lottery ticket for a price greater than that fixed by the Director includes sports lottery tickets in addition to drawing lottery tickets and instant lottery tickets.
## 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=78738&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB201)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-05-19** Introduced and Assigned to Gaming & Parimutuels Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Gaming & Parimutuels) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-12** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-30** 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/3c4067b8-65b2-4b0d-8f07-df812206ac4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).