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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREWORKS."
description: "This Act deletes from the Delaware Code a derogatory and highly offensive term for Italian-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-American immigrants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 368"
citation: "Delaware HB 368 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-31"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0907047-f716-43ce-be93-a6b1aee95159"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99296"
source_hash: "a6e9193fcd2df8c3106354ccc0798124ff0b3c4a7ac30cf7e25bd38d5e5b3c85"
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 368 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREWORKS.
This Act deletes from the Delaware Code a derogatory and highly offensive term for Italian-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-American immigrants.
## 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=99296&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB368)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-31** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-03** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2022-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-07** Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/e0907047-f716-43ce-be93-a6b1aee95159`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).