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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLES."
+description: "Car theft was the primary impetus behind state codes prohibiting a motor vehicle owner to leave a car unattended with the keys in the ignition; a common habit to warm-up the vehicle during colder months. From 2013 to 2015, a total of 206 cars were stolen in Delaware due to the owner leaving the keys in the car while unattended; of these, 12 went unrecovered. Improved technology, such as remote starters, has instigated changes to these outdated statutes in several states. This Act excludes motor vehicles that are started by a remote starter or other similar device without a key in the ignition and that would be rendered inoperable without the key in the ignition or present within the vehicle."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 224"
+citation: "Delaware HB 224 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John J. Viola", "John Walsh"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 5
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-13"
+last_action: "2017-08-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f6fe56c-2b3e-4b6c-83aa-b13bb70a2c26"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25955"
+source_hash: "90cf44b2f1a2645e5bc6a0b5e15035596c8c958fbac6f8731566c51ce364d69d"
+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 224 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLES.
+
+Car theft was the primary impetus behind state codes prohibiting a motor vehicle owner to leave a car unattended with the keys in the ignition; a common habit to warm-up the vehicle during colder months. From 2013 to 2015, a total of 206 cars were stolen in Delaware due to the owner leaving the keys in the car while unattended; of these, 12 went unrecovered. Improved technology, such as remote starters, has instigated changes to these outdated statutes in several states. This Act excludes motor vehicles that are started by a remote starter or other similar device without a key in the ignition and that would be rendered inoperable without the key in the ignition or present within the vehicle.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25955&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB224)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John J. Viola — primary (person)
+- John Walsh — primary (person)
+- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-13** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-08-30** 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/6f6fe56c-2b3e-4b6c-83aa-b13bb70a2c26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+