---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS."
description: "This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Delaware HB 59 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-18"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48235"
source_hash: "421b061a01a7dd07dbdb1c956c9d6025d03079c3e18c38fe5268dbc34779da4b"
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 59 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS.

This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle.

## 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=48235&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB59)
2. **HA 1 to HB 59** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48434&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-18** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-17** 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/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).