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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES."
description: "Currently, the microbrewery statute permits a business to own 1 microbrewery and up to 2 brewpubs (a microbrewery that also has a restaurant as part of its business). This legislation would permit a microbrewery to choose to operate either 2 brewpubs or 1 additional microbrewery and 1 brewpub, under common ownership. The total number of licenses the business could hold remains 3, but it allows the business to choose 2 microbreweries and 1 brewpub, or 1 microbrewery and 2 brewpubs. A microbrewery can also choose to operate just one establishment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 170"
citation: "Delaware HB 170 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Josue O Ortega", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Marie Pinkney", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-15"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b3b825a-5e55-4b2e-aa65-53ee4c0e9e02"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142295"
source_hash: "7ec06997d6e8b9ef9b93945116b180ad50c7b839e8a946a0f8128f0af6a9c865"
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 170 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MICROBREWERIES.
Currently, the microbrewery statute permits a business to own 1 microbrewery and up to 2 brewpubs (a microbrewery that also has a restaurant as part of its business). This legislation would permit a microbrewery to choose to operate either 2 brewpubs or 1 additional microbrewery and 1 brewpub, under common ownership. The total number of licenses the business could hold remains 3, but it allows the business to choose 2 microbreweries and 1 brewpub, or 1 microbrewery and 2 brewpubs. A microbrewery can also choose to operate just one establishment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **360** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-15** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** 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/5b3b825a-5e55-4b2e-aa65-53ee4c0e9e02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).