republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-8.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS.	This Act defines machine gun as it is defined under federal law. Defining machine gun makes clear the types of weapons prohibited under Delaware law, including an auto sear, or “glock switch”, which transforms a semiautomatic gun into a machine gun.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 8	Delaware SB 8 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski John L. Mitchell Peter C. Schwartzkopf S. Elizabeth Lockman Valerie Longhurst	3	11	3	2022-06-09	2022-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/44cc2eeb-e326-496b-8557-7ad38e64fcec	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=119650	0ee219668ae2a3d4dd21fd9b6fb6d70e33c80357e9742973887738641cc14594	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 8 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS.

This Act defines machine gun as it is defined under federal law. Defining machine gun makes clear the types of weapons prohibited under Delaware law, including an auto sear, or “glock switch”, which transforms a semiautomatic gun into a machine gun.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to SB 8 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to SB 8 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 13–8 (pass) · upper
• SM — 13–8 (pass) · upper
• SM — 32–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-09 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-16 Amendment SA 1 to SB 8 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-16 Amendment SA 1 to SB 8 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO amendment-passage
• 2022-06-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO passage
• 2022-06-17 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-28 Amendment HA 1 to SB 8 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 8 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO passage
• 2022-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44cc2eeb-e326-496b-8557-7ad38e64fcec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).