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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES."
+description: "This bill allows the background plates (animal welfare, farmland preservation, Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Delaware Equine Council, and Keep Delaware Beautiful) issued by DMV to be displayed on trailers up to 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). It also increases the size of trucks that can display the plates from ¾ ton (10,000 pounds GVWR) to 26,000 pounds GVWR."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 437"
+citation: "Delaware HB 437 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-06-05"
+last_action: "2018-08-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a487a2a-157e-440e-81db-5ac0c2252372"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26740"
+source_hash: "a95fbd95d4dd7eca7e39508e802a5e069e9b2d86cde15125765a9eb8317ad1f5"
+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 437 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.
+
+This bill allows the background plates (animal welfare, farmland preservation, Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Delaware Equine Council, and Keep Delaware Beautiful) issued by DMV to be displayed on trailers up to 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). It also increases the size of trucks that can display the plates from ¾ ton (10,000 pounds GVWR) to 26,000 pounds GVWR.
+
+## 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=26740&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB437)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2018-07-01** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2018-08-28** 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/3a487a2a-157e-440e-81db-5ac0c2252372`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+