---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADDITION OF MINOR LICENSED CHILDREN AND FOSTER CHILDREN TO EXISTING MOTOR VEHICLE POLICIES."
description: "This Act permits individuals to add their resident minor child and foster child to their existing motor vehicle insurance policies as additional drivers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Delaware SB 42 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "Bryon H. Short"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-23"
last_action: "2017-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af4db173-f736-4797-a46e-63c8c6e6c370"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25519"
source_hash: "8f0832f8ae8ee9432ae61ea187db7d586eb3c456f1f1e75867b636a813026940"
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 42 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADDITION OF MINOR LICENSED CHILDREN AND FOSTER CHILDREN TO EXISTING MOTOR VEHICLE POLICIES.

This Act permits individuals to add their resident minor child and foster child to their existing motor vehicle insurance policies as additional drivers.

## 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=25519&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB42)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
- Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-23** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Amendment SA 1 to SB 42 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-30** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment SA 2 to SB 42 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment SA 1 to SB 42 - Stricken in Senate
- **2017-04-05** Amendment SA 2 to SB 42 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-02** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-08-17** 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/af4db173-f736-4797-a46e-63c8c6e6c370`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).