republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-42.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADDITION OF MINOR LICENSED CHILDREN AND FOSTER CHILDREN TO EXISTING MOTOR VEHICLE POLICIES.	This Act permits individuals to add their resident minor child and foster child to their existing motor vehicle insurance policies as additional drivers.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 42	Delaware SB 42 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian J. Bushweller Bryon H. Short	1	11	2	2017-03-23	2017-08-17	openstates	ocd-bill/af4db173-f736-4797-a46e-63c8c6e6c370	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25519	8f0832f8ae8ee9432ae61ea187db7d586eb3c456f1f1e75867b636a813026940	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 42 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADDITION OF MINOR LICENSED CHILDREN AND FOSTER CHILDREN TO EXISTING MOTOR VEHICLE POLICIES.

This Act permits individuals to add their resident minor child and foster child to their existing motor vehicle insurance policies as additional drivers.

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

• Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-23 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 Amendment SA 1 to SB 42 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-30 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-04 Amendment SA 2 to SB 42 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-05 Amendment SA 1 to SB 42 - Stricken in Senate
• 2017-04-05 Amendment SA 2 to SB 42 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-04-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-06 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-07-02 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-08-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af4db173-f736-4797-a46e-63c8c6e6c370. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).