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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENTAL CAR INSURANCE COVERAGE."
+description: "This Act changes Delaware’s law related to liability insurance for rental vehicles. Under the Act, the minimum level of coverage required for a vehicle owner’s policy of liability insurance under § 2902 of this title is also required for a vehicle owner’s rental of a vehicle."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 257"
+citation: "Delaware SB 257 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David L. Wilson", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Nicole Poore", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-28"
+last_action: "2024-09-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6bed115-1b29-43ff-ab36-9258ecb43548"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141162"
+source_hash: "2eab596f515ccc6b2a111d58f1d49ff804c5a1c2376e51078028724d43b7ee92"
+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 257 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENTAL CAR INSURANCE COVERAGE.
+
+This Act changes Delaware’s law related to liability insurance for rental vehicles. Under the Act, the minimum level of coverage required for a vehicle owner’s policy of liability insurance under § 2902 of this title is also required for a vehicle owner’s rental of a vehicle.
+
+## 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=141162&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB257)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-04-24** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-09-26** 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/d6bed115-1b29-43ff-ab36-9258ecb43548`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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