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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES."
+description: "This bill increases the 1-time fee from $35 to $50 for Delaware’s environmental license plates in order to increase revenue to improve the capacity of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to fulfill their responsibilities to the protection and restoration of Delaware’s estuaries."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 345"
+citation: "Delaware HB 345 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-15"
+last_action: "2018-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c246cc0d-b940-4f29-89a3-0a7ed8297d8c"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26376"
+source_hash: "ad86c4516b367a05073cc6dc5b80e79c8125eeb636648e0c865cdc590e055c43"
+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 345 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.
+
+This bill increases the 1-time fee from $35 to $50 for Delaware’s environmental license plates in order to increase revenue to improve the capacity of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to fulfill their responsibilities to the protection and restoration of Delaware’s estuaries.
+
+## 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=26376&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB345)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3/5 — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-03-15** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-28** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2018-04-18** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-05-24** 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/c246cc0d-b940-4f29-89a3-0a7ed8297d8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+