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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES FOR MOTORCYCLES."
+description: "This Act authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles (“Division”) to issue special registration plates to motorcycle clubs without having to enact a special law for each request. A motorcycle club must have 50 applications for its special registration plate before the Division is required to issue a special registration plate; however, the requirement is reduced to 25 for certain motorcycle clubs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 16"
+citation: "Delaware SB 16 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Daniel B. Short"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-22"
+last_action: "2019-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb671056-bc0b-46df-9c99-e558ab8a18b0"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37118"
+source_hash: "0022472ce7a2b0e60802d9bb44a1be943645438826871e5e2382c43cadfa61c6"
+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 16 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES FOR MOTORCYCLES.
+
+This Act authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles (“Division”) to issue special registration plates to motorcycle clubs without having to enact a special law for each request. A motorcycle club must have 50 applications for its special registration plate before the Division is required to issue a special registration plate; however, the requirement is reduced to 25 for certain motorcycle clubs.
+
+## 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=37118&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB16)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47242&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3/5 — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-22** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 16 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-03-21** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2019-06-25** 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/eb671056-bc0b-46df-9c99-e558ab8a18b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+