---
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 Combat Veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Delaware HB 61 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Michael Ramone", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2022-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7c7ac9f-31aa-4465-8ca7-513489dd23b2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48248"
source_hash: "e2004b9348e54b76a88b6d0c4b5019e4b7145c236dc472b727b0cd913b279cbe"
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 61 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

This bill creates a special license plate for Combat 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=48248&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB61)
2. **HA 1 to HB 61** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129741&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Introduced and Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Tabled in Committee
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 7 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-25** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2022-06-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 61 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 61 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-14** 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/e7c7ac9f-31aa-4465-8ca7-513489dd23b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).