republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-345.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.	This bill increases the 1-time fee from $35 to $50 for Delaware’s environmental license plates in order to increase revenue to improve the capacity of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to fulfill their responsibilities to the protection and restoration of Delaware’s estuaries.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 345	Delaware HB 345 (149)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B Lopez Peter C. Schwartzkopf	1	7	2	2018-03-15	2018-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/c246cc0d-b940-4f29-89a3-0a7ed8297d8c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26376	ad86c4516b367a05073cc6dc5b80e79c8125eeb636648e0c865cdc590e055c43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 345 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

This bill increases the 1-time fee from $35 to $50 for Delaware’s environmental license plates in order to increase revenue to improve the capacity of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to fulfill their responsibilities to the protection and restoration of Delaware’s estuaries.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• 3/5 — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-15 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-28 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-04-17 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-04-18 Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-05-24 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c246cc0d-b940-4f29-89a3-0a7ed8297d8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).