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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD."
+description: "This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a highway, defined in § 101 of Title 29 as \"the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel . . . .\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "Delaware SB 78 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-05-05"
+last_action: "2017-10-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b0c807-139e-4d5d-8feb-ebd4f28fa3eb"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25723"
+source_hash: "e85e683e6a0360c4622c909140fd619a1dc74bfde40ae1773a24a2f1bf86c077"
+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 78 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD.
+
+This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a highway, defined in § 101 of Title 29 as "the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel . . . ."
+
+## 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=25723&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB78)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-05-05** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-21** Amendment SA 1 to SB 78 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-06-22** Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-10-05** 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/72b0c807-139e-4d5d-8feb-ebd4f28fa3eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+