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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO RENAME THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WELCOME CENTER ON INTERSTATE 95 LOCATED AT 530 JFK MEMORIAL HIGHWAY NEWARK, DE 19702 IN HONOR OF THE BIDENS."
description: "This Act has the effect of renaming the Delaware Department of Transportation Welcome Center on Interstate 95 at 530 JFK Memorial Highway, Newark, Delaware as the \"Biden Welcome Center\" in honor of the Biden family. This gesture is made because of the exemplary service to the State of Delaware the Bidens have provided, and because of their lifelong promotion of this State."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 382"
citation: "Delaware HB 382 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Deborah Hudson", "Gerald L. Brady", "Harris B. McDowell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-24"
last_action: "2018-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58f9fea7-01a9-4ce9-8ee1-a47b2c0daaab"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26540"
source_hash: "c0194da33697e0a33f4e24bd47b0228cea67691a39715efa03a345f595441a85"
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 382 (149) — AN ACT TO RENAME THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WELCOME CENTER ON INTERSTATE 95 LOCATED AT 530 JFK MEMORIAL HIGHWAY NEWARK, DE 19702 IN HONOR OF THE BIDENS.
This Act has the effect of renaming the Delaware Department of Transportation Welcome Center on Interstate 95 at 530 JFK Memorial Highway, Newark, Delaware as the "Biden Welcome Center" in honor of the Biden family. This gesture is made because of the exemplary service to the State of Delaware the Bidens have provided, and because of their lifelong promotion of this State.
## 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=26540&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB382)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Deborah Hudson — primary (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-04-24** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Tabled in Committee
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2018-06-05** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-05** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-09-17** 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/58f9fea7-01a9-4ce9-8ee1-a47b2c0daaab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).