republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-159.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE.	The Act made changes to motor vehicle franchising practices, by doing the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 159	Delaware SB 159 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David B. McBride Peter C. Schwartzkopf	1	6	2	2018-05-02	2018-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7e79a08e-6425-4eed-acd9-6463559fb70b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26621	939338619894c0df194b489b48b776dc4ea1cff858faae9ff0eb000bd022c3ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 159 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE.

The Act made changes to motor vehicle franchising practices, by doing the following:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-02 was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 159 introduction
• 2018-05-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-05-30 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 12 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-19 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO passage
• 2018-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e79a08e-6425-4eed-acd9-6463559fb70b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).