---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL AGREEMENTS."
description: "This Act prohibits motor vehicle lessors from including licensing, title, registration, and plate fees as a separately stated mandatory charge in a rental agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "Delaware HB 208 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Morrison", "Larry Lambert", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-08"
last_action: "2023-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b619b8e8-dec6-4a9e-b7c9-02289712e11f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140538"
source_hash: "a6612efdd76c8e9c63a489cca8cf309ba7f57b30e7851d4141f6fffc1d35e50b"
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 208 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL AGREEMENTS.

This Act prohibits motor vehicle lessors from including licensing, title, registration, and plate fees as a separately stated mandatory charge in a rental agreement.

## 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=140538&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB208)

## Votes

- SM — **16–4** (pass) · upper
- SM — **25–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** Re-Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 14 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-20** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-09-21** 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/b619b8e8-dec6-4a9e-b7c9-02289712e11f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).