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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES. | This bill allows the background plates (animal welfare, farmland preservation, Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Delaware Equine Council, and Keep Delaware Beautiful) issued by DMV to be displayed on trailers up to 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). It also increases the size of trucks that can display the plates from ¾ ton (10,000 pounds GVWR) to 26,000 pounds GVWR. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 149 | HB 437 | Delaware HB 437 (149) |
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1 | 6 | 2 | 2018-06-05 | 2018-08-28 | openstates | ocd-bill/3a487a2a-157e-440e-81db-5ac0c2252372 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26740 | a95fbd95d4dd7eca7e39508e802a5e069e9b2d86cde15125765a9eb8317ad1f5 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 437 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.
This bill allows the background plates (animal welfare, farmland preservation, Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Delaware Equine Council, and Keep Delaware Beautiful) issued by DMV to be displayed on trailers up to 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR). It also increases the size of trucks that can display the plates from ¾ ton (10,000 pounds GVWR) to 26,000 pounds GVWR.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
- SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-06-05 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2018-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
passage - 2018-07-01 Suspension of Rules in Senate
- 2018-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
passage - 2018-08-28 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a487a2a-157e-440e-81db-5ac0c2252372. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).