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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOL."
description: "This Act cleans up antiquated portions of The Liquor Control Act, under Title 4, by updating provisions that have been in the Code since the 1930s and making technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 243"
citation: "Delaware SB 243 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Daniel Cruce", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-26"
last_action: "2026-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fd53d25-cabf-411a-a649-5248a2fb22c3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142872"
source_hash: "ae561176cf540a096d929461c1ab10efac67aa2bebf59f35a8f59b1c5b279845"
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 SB 243 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 4 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ALCOHOL.
This Act cleans up antiquated portions of The Liquor Control Act, under Title 4, by updating provisions that have been in the Code since the 1930s and making technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SA 1 to SB 243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142922&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 3/5 — **200** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **370** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Daniel Cruce — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-26** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Amendment SA 1 to SB 243 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2026-03-11** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-19** Amendment SA 1 to SB 243 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-03-24** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-14** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-07** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-05-21** 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/6fd53d25-cabf-411a-a649-5248a2fb22c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).