republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-195.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BARTENDING.	This Act changes the age at which a person can bartend from 21 years old to 18 years old, and requires that a bartender who is 18, 19, or 20 years old be directly supervised by a person who is 21 years of age or older and who is working behind the bar with the 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old. This Act also increases the frequency of statutorily mandated alcoholic beverage server training from every 4 years to every 2 years.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 195	Delaware HB 195 (153)	bill		enacted	John "Jack" Walsh Josue O Ortega Kimberly Williams Michael F. Smith Spiros Mantzavinos	1	10	3	2025-06-05	2026-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/30dbe35a-74b4-45b8-ab11-fda13e32455e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142412	da547bfad037f45dc6131bb38651de1ec6195127c77dce017976e20ddc4a1f3f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 195 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BARTENDING.

This Act changes the age at which a person can bartend from 21 years old to 18 years old, and requires that a bartender who is 18, 19, or 20 years old be directly supervised by a person who is 21 years of age or older and who is working behind the bar with the 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old. This Act also increases the frequency of statutorily mandated alcoholic beverage server training from every 4 years to every 2 years.

Version chain

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

1. SA 1 to HB 195 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 32–6 (pass) · lower
• SM — 14–5 (pass) · upper
• SM — 31–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-05 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-01-20 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-12 Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 5 NO 5 ABSENT passage
• 2026-03-12 Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-04-21 Amendment SA 1 to HB 195 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2026-04-22 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-05-06 Amendment SA 1 to HB 195 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2026-05-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 2 NOT VOTING passage
• 2026-05-12 Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 6 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2026-06-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30dbe35a-74b4-45b8-ab11-fda13e32455e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).