republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-373.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.	Currently, there is ambiguity whether a person who is 14 or 15 years of age can be employed by restaurants, hotels, or dining facilities that serve alcoholic liquors. This bill removes that ambiguity and makes it clear that persons 14 and 15 years of age can be employed in such places where alcoholic liquors are served, but cannot be involved in the sale or service of alcoholic liquor.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 373	Delaware HB 373 (151)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B. Lopez Laura V. Sturgeon Michael Ramone Peter C. Schwartzkopf Stephen Smyk	1	8	2	2022-03-31	2022-04-14	openstates	ocd-bill/d35df962-ed16-4768-9b4e-85915843485a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99307	6c828bfa521e6b95767fadf3d6e184d8ccfebddd369551b937095bbb3f68e8b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 373 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

Currently, there is ambiguity whether a person who is 14 or 15 years of age can be employed by restaurants, hotels, or dining facilities that serve alcoholic liquors. This bill removes that ambiguity and makes it clear that persons 14 and 15 years of age can be employed in such places where alcoholic liquors are served, but cannot be involved in the sale or service of alcoholic liquor.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 36–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-31 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-07 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT passage
• 2022-04-07 Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-12 Re-Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-13 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-14 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-04-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d35df962-ed16-4768-9b4e-85915843485a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).