---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATING A TOLL VIOLATION AMNESTY PROGRAM."
description: "This Senate Joint Resolution creates a one-time, Toll Violation Amnesty Program (Amnesty Program) to provide a 3 month long opportunity for people to satisfy toll debt that is in collection from toll violations that occurred on I-95 and SR 1. The Amnesty Program will collect funds that the State would probably otherwise never receive. Each year, the Department of Transportation collects over $190 million from over 70,600,000 toll transactions on I-95 and SR 1. However, Delaware is owed over $143.4 million in toll debt from unpaid tolls, penalties, and fees from toll violations on these highways. The most recent 3-year average collection rate of toll debt is 8.4%."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SJR 5"
citation: "Delaware SJR 5 (151)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Edward S. Osienski", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-03"
last_action: "2021-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51b9faa3-82c7-4071-98f0-3230d8aa8365"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78813"
source_hash: "bbe0e21c7caa1eb0d1e8528c74367b8951e411857fc2a3ebe3970f8b6efe82f2"
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 SJR 5 (151) — CREATING A TOLL VIOLATION AMNESTY PROGRAM.

This Senate Joint Resolution creates a one-time, Toll Violation Amnesty Program (Amnesty Program) to provide a 3 month long opportunity for people to satisfy toll debt that is in collection from toll violations that occurred on I-95 and SR 1. The Amnesty Program will collect funds that the State would probably otherwise never receive. Each year, the Department of Transportation collects over $190 million from over 70,600,000 toll transactions on I-95 and SR 1. However, Delaware is owed over $143.4 million in toll debt from unpaid tolls, penalties, and fees from toll violations on these highways. The most recent 3-year average collection rate of toll debt is 8.4%.

## 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=78813&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SJR5)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-10** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-11** Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-10** 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/51b9faa3-82c7-4071-98f0-3230d8aa8365`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).