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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT."
description: "This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened. The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices. This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 154"
citation: "Delaware HB 154 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-14"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f50581cd-d39e-48f2-aa54-99dd9e16cef5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142290"
source_hash: "19ac08fad6c6bdaa800b691cca987ce486e5cdaeed5a19c6c6f0ca84ea85f2be"
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 154 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GUN SAFETY EQUIPMENT.
This Act provides immunity to nonprofit organizations who distribute new secure gun storage and safety devices to individuals so long as the devices are distributed in their original packaging and are unopened. The nonprofit must provide gun safety pamphlets with the distribution of gun storage and safety devices. This Act does not limit any liability on the part of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of the secure gun storage or safety device.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **317** (pass) · lower
- SM — **156** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-14** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 154 `introduction`
- **2025-05-20** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-20** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Defeated By House. Votes: 15 YES 20 NO 3 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-20** Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 7 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2025-08-20** 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/f50581cd-d39e-48f2-aa54-99dd9e16cef5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).