---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES."
description: "As a part of Delaware’s commemoration of Delaware’s 250th anniversary of Separation Day and America’s semiquincentennial, this Act establishes a new background special license plate that will be made available to those Delawareans wishing to honor and appropriately remember this special time in our State’s history."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 250"
citation: "Delaware HB 250 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "David L. Wilson", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-15"
last_action: "2025-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3941da37-6062-4090-8ca3-b153b20f1f3e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142300"
source_hash: "825dc821f5b44db4d07fa8dbbb0ad2db0b86e0674291d48b11e5ae18274641a4"
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 250 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

As a part of Delaware’s commemoration of Delaware’s 250th anniversary of Separation Day and America’s semiquincentennial, this Act establishes a new background special license plate that will be made available to those Delawareans wishing to honor and appropriately remember this special time in our State’s history.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HA 1 to HB 250** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142375&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **34–0** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-15** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 250 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 250 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-22** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-09-16** 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/3941da37-6062-4090-8ca3-b153b20f1f3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).