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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE."
+description: "The Act made changes to motor vehicle franchising practices, by doing the following:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "SB 159"
+citation: "Delaware SB 159 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David B. McBride", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-02"
+last_action: "2018-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e79a08e-6425-4eed-acd9-6463559fb70b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26621"
+source_hash: "939338619894c0df194b489b48b776dc4ea1cff858faae9ff0eb000bd022c3ea"
+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 159 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE.
+
+The Act made changes to motor vehicle franchising practices, by doing the following:
+
+## 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=26621&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- David B. McBride — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-02** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 159 `introduction`
+- **2018-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-05-30** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-19** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2018-06-30** 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/7e79a08e-6425-4eed-acd9-6463559fb70b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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