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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.	This Act removes the exemption in § 543(d)(4) of Title 4 (reduced distance requirements based on population growth) to the prohibition against granting a license for the sale of alcoholic liquor if there is an existing licensed establishment of similar type within either of the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 230	Delaware SB 230 (151)	bill		enacted	Michael Ramone Nicole Poore Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2022-03-03	2022-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/2637b590-18db-49e3-92b0-b112f88e37b0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79155	8a86f06e13636a533b9c718bf556817130f400e43a5649228b1542bf24b41df0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 230 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

This Act removes the exemption in § 543(d)(4) of Title 4 (reduced distance requirements based on population growth) to the prohibition against granting a license for the sale of alcoholic liquor if there is an existing licensed establishment of similar type within either 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

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 33–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-03 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-03-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-03-16 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-24 Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 5 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-04-13 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2637b590-18db-49e3-92b0-b112f88e37b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).