---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES."
description: "This Act creates a special license plate for those citizens who wish to support pollinator habitat creation and conservation. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article VIII, § 11 of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of 3/5 of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly when a new tax or license fee is imposed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Delaware SB 23 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/647743b6-965d-4628-9fe3-f746f5682038"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48262"
source_hash: "153dd93b3638e0679bd67702c77808f586d7e5059e9b8425ac24c55528dce3ef"
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 23 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

This Act creates a special license plate for those citizens who wish to support pollinator habitat creation and conservation. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article VIII, § 11 of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of 3/5 of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly when a new tax or license fee is imposed.

## 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=48262&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB23)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Re-Assigned to Environmental & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-03** 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/647743b6-965d-4628-9fe3-f746f5682038`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).