---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT DESIGNATING AND NAMING THE PORTION OF U.S. ROUTE 301 COMMENCING AT DELAWARE ROUTE 1 AND TERMINATING AT THE DELAWARE MARYLAND STATE LINE AS FIRST RESPONDERS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY."
description: "This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Delaware HB 56 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Kevin S Hensley", "Nicole Poore", "Quinton Johnson", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39f96f1f-06e3-4c8e-9314-c2f8a4a1e4fa"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37145"
source_hash: "0bb8b344b72b965e4e1e98fdcba517ec76f18e2970ec8fd68168cbeb87a4d029"
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 56 (150) — AN ACT DESIGNATING AND NAMING THE PORTION OF U.S. ROUTE 301 COMMENCING AT DELAWARE ROUTE 1 AND TERMINATING AT THE DELAWARE MARYLAND STATE LINE AS FIRST RESPONDERS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.

This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.

## 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=37145&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB56)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Quinton Johnson — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-09-13** 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/39f96f1f-06e3-4c8e-9314-c2f8a4a1e4fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).