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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FOODS AND BEVERAGES IN SCHOOLS."
description: "This Act prohibits a school district or charter school from selling or serving breakfast, lunch, or competitive food on campus during the school day that contains the color additive Red dye 40 (CAS no. 25956-17-6). Competitive foods are sold through the school nutrition programs, and include items sold in vending machines on campus or served a la carte."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 69"
citation: "Delaware SB 69 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan W. Shupe", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Buckson", "Josue O Ortega", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3e52dee-b2e0-4a20-b8ec-bda83273957b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141908"
source_hash: "bf0098b7caf493830e05b679a7bb293eaf521ddc4f7f2d99a1fb7839983f76c7"
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 69 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FOODS AND BEVERAGES IN SCHOOLS.
This Act prohibits a school district or charter school from selling or serving breakfast, lunch, or competitive food on campus during the school day that contains the color additive Red dye 40 (CAS no. 25956-17-6). Competitive foods are sold through the school nutrition programs, and include items sold in vending machines on campus or served a la carte.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
- SM — **190** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Buckson — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-11** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-22** 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/a3e52dee-b2e0-4a20-b8ec-bda83273957b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).