republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-188.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT FIREARM PROCUREMENT.	This Act clarifies that the law-enforcement agency practice of purchasing firearms for that agency’s law-enforcement officers for use by the officers in their official duties is exempted from the requirements under §§ 1448A, 1448B, and 1448D of Title 11 under our State’s permit to purchase firearms laws.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 188	Delaware SB 188 (153)	bill		enacted	Franklin D. Cooke S. Elizabeth Lockman Stell Parker Selby	0	7	2	2025-06-18	2026-01-30	openstates	ocd-bill/4eb69a2a-5110-4ddf-ab27-85aafecc7d62	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142583	1b121605f22216976c68fc7a61cf3e2bccd26752a2886316b9eb132d4e400040	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 188 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT FIREARM PROCUREMENT.

This Act clarifies that the law-enforcement agency practice of purchasing firearms for that agency’s law-enforcement officers for use by the officers in their official duties is exempted from the requirements under §§ 1448A, 1448B, and 1448D of Title 11 under our State’s permit to purchase firearms laws.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-18 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2026-01-14 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-01-20 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2026-01-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4eb69a2a-5110-4ddf-ab27-85aafecc7d62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).