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

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES, OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT, RULES OF THE ROAD, MISCELLANEOUS RULES.	This legislation creates a fine for “Coal Rolling”, a practice that is often undetectable at the time of vehicle inspection due to the ability of an operator to change functions and increase emissions after passing inspection.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 149	Delaware SB 149 (149)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski Gregory F. Lavelle Stephanie L. Hansen	1	7	2	2018-01-24	2018-09-04	openstates	ocd-bill/b8c23f5e-192b-4bdc-9125-155455320b11	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26292	22c64f666000b4a8f09a7dc266a726255d5ced0173e1cfb8d97e78ed2ca6bec6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 149 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES, OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT, RULES OF THE ROAD, MISCELLANEOUS RULES.

This legislation creates a fine for “Coal Rolling”, a practice that is often undetectable at the time of vehicle inspection due to the ability of an operator to change functions and increase emissions after passing inspection.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-24 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-03-20 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-03-22 Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-09-04 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8c23f5e-192b-4bdc-9125-155455320b11. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).