---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES."
description: "This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 280"
citation: "Delaware HB 280 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-02-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba56d67c-0ade-4497-9347-11c8637d80f4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47936"
source_hash: "7d688a10c67fa03ece22bed8c420a9b60474192c57dd0bdc4265f30e50150b09"
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 280 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.

## 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=47936&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB280)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2020-01-16** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2020-02-10** 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/ba56d67c-0ade-4497-9347-11c8637d80f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).