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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION ON TRAFFIC STOP PROCEDURES.	According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 42% of all face-to-face contact between individuals and law-enforcement officers occurred during a traffic stop.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 168	Delaware SB 168 (149)	bill		enacted	Charles Potter Jr. Debra Heffernan Margaret Rose Henry	1	8	2	2018-03-28	2018-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/0abd737f-130a-46e0-b902-c82dfcdfe133	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26440	2f34cec80eb5d7c6f518073d6613dbe97e992a4e5c441dcc7fe2ef3b4daba68c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 168 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION ON TRAFFIC STOP PROCEDURES.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 42% of all face-to-face contact between individuals and law-enforcement officers occurred during a traffic stop.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-28 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-05 Amendment SA 1 to SB 168 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2018-06-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-06-06 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 2 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0abd737f-130a-46e0-b902-c82dfcdfe133. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).