---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION ON TRAFFIC STOP PROCEDURES."
description: "According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 42% of all face-to-face contact between individuals and law-enforcement officers occurred during a traffic stop."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Delaware SB 168 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Potter Jr.", "Debra Heffernan", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-28"
last_action: "2018-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0abd737f-130a-46e0-b902-c82dfcdfe133"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26440"
source_hash: "2f34cec80eb5d7c6f518073d6613dbe97e992a4e5c441dcc7fe2ef3b4daba68c"
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 168 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION ON TRAFFIC STOP PROCEDURES.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 42% of all face-to-face contact between individuals and law-enforcement officers occurred during a traffic stop.

## 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=26440&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB168)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-05** Amendment SA 1 to SB 168 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-05** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-06-06** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-07-23** 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/0abd737f-130a-46e0-b902-c82dfcdfe133`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).