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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES."
description: "This Act allows 2 or more microbreweries to share brewing equipment if the microbreweries maintain separate premises to sell their product to consumers and wholesalers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Delaware HB 81 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel B. Short", "David P. Sokola", "Ernesto B. Lopez", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d26f434-53fb-4ea2-95f1-a8d89b11c403"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48315"
source_hash: "ebbcc2101e1ac6b5a9a05ef00717151512a6f5cd33f745af976f054d4d36eabb"
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 81 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES.
This Act allows 2 or more microbreweries to share brewing equipment if the microbreweries maintain separate premises to sell their product to consumers and wholesalers.
## 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=48315&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB81)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-21** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/7d26f434-53fb-4ea2-95f1-a8d89b11c403`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).