republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-77.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF HARMFUL FLAME RETARDANTS.	This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of children's products, upholstered furniture used in residences, and mattresses that contain harmful flame retardant chemicals. These flame retardants have been found to cause cancer, particularly to firefighters who are extinguishing fires that involve products that contain these chemicals. This Act does not apply to any of the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 77	Delaware HB 77 (151)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Dave G. Lawson John A. Kowalko Melissa Minor-Brown Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	11	2	2021-01-19	2022-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/c9cdffeb-dbba-40a8-81cc-b2983c0ca524	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48303	a4da138d7cc2d00ed2e0ab0fbb788dd790b89f77e99f93b1faf4f8bc701ec403	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 77 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF HARMFUL FLAME RETARDANTS.

This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of children's products, upholstered furniture used in residences, and mattresses that contain harmful flame retardant chemicals. These flame retardants have been found to cause cancer, particularly to firefighters who are extinguishing fires that involve products that contain these chemicals. This Act does not apply to any of the following:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 77 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2022-01-11 Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-03-31 Amendment HA 2 to HB 77 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-07 Amendment HA 1 to HB 77 - Stricken in House
• 2022-06-07 Amendment HA 2 to HB 77 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-07 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO passage
• 2022-06-07 Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-08-04 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9cdffeb-dbba-40a8-81cc-b2983c0ca524. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).