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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AMMUNITION."
description: "This Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case, behind a counter or other customer access preventing device is not considered accessible for purposes of this section."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 270"
citation: "Delaware HB 270 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kimberly Williams", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-21"
last_action: "2024-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec172b51-6609-43fe-847c-12f630f781ac"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141115"
source_hash: "4aeb7645ac049bd1d6e4f16bf1245bf9487fd4b387e7c5c5030f94dc6c97e13c"
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 270 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 11 AND 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AMMUNITION.
This Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case, behind a counter or other customer access preventing device is not considered accessible for purposes of this section.
## 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=141115&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB270)
2. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141234&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **279** (pass) · lower
- SM — **156** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-21** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 270 `introduction`
- **2024-04-18** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-18** Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 9 NO 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2024-08-15** 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/ec172b51-6609-43fe-847c-12f630f781ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).