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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT."
+description: "This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "SB 64"
+citation: "Delaware SB 64 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-04-25"
+last_action: "2017-07-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18ec1955-dbf0-406c-964d-e4056bf37017"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25655"
+source_hash: "e58e6dd02551ddc4c2f3d57ed7669e57389241454b98195aa33125ff9fe3a508"
+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 64 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
+
+This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning.
+
+## 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=25655&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB64)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-04-25** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-05-11** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-21** 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/18ec1955-dbf0-406c-964d-e4056bf37017`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+