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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS."
+description: "This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 59"
+citation: "Delaware HB 59 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-12-18"
+last_action: "2021-09-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48235"
+source_hash: "421b061a01a7dd07dbdb1c956c9d6025d03079c3e18c38fe5268dbc34779da4b"
+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 59 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS.
+
+This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle.
+
+## 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=48235&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB59)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48434&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-18** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-09-17** 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/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+