---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT."
description: "This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 64"
citation: "Delaware SB 64 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-04-25"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18ec1955-dbf0-406c-964d-e4056bf37017"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25655"
source_hash: "e58e6dd02551ddc4c2f3d57ed7669e57389241454b98195aa33125ff9fe3a508"
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 64 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning.

## 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=25655&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB64)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-25** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-05-11** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-21** 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/18ec1955-dbf0-406c-964d-e4056bf37017`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).