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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BARTENDING."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 195"
citation: "Delaware HB 195 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Michael F. Smith", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-06-05"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30dbe35a-74b4-45b8-ab11-fda13e32455e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142412"
source_hash: "da547bfad037f45dc6131bb38651de1ec6195127c77dce017976e20ddc4a1f3f"
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 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](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=143156&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **326** (pass) · lower
- SM — **145** (pass) · upper
- SM — **315** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30dbe35a-74b4-45b8-ab11-fda13e32455e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).