republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-12.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LIGHTING EQUIPMENT ON MOTORCYCLES.	This Act explicitly allows ground effect lighting equipment on motorcycles. This extra lighting would increase motorcycle safety by enhancing their visibility.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 12	Delaware SB 12 (149)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Daniel B. Short F. Gary Simpson John L. Mitchell	1	8	2	2017-01-12	2017-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/51b86ae4-1acd-40b1-9550-18c7cffb6d2b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25381	d3f32d730e6033f8f388cde10b123b3539e637b5551d9a5538a5d874b0de6dc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 12 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LIGHTING EQUIPMENT ON MOTORCYCLES.

This Act explicitly allows ground effect lighting equipment on motorcycles. This extra lighting would increase motorcycle safety by enhancing their visibility.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 17–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-12 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-03-09 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2017-03-16 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-13 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51b86ae4-1acd-40b1-9550-18c7cffb6d2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).