republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-78.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD.	This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a highway, defined in § 101 of Title 29 as "the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel . . . ."	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 78	Delaware SB 78 (149)	bill		enacted	David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski	1	8	2	2017-05-05	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/72b0c807-139e-4d5d-8feb-ebd4f28fa3eb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25723	e85e683e6a0360c4622c909140fd619a1dc74bfde40ae1773a24a2f1bf86c077	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 78 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD.

This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a highway, defined in § 101 of Title 29 as "the entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel . . . ."

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-05 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-21 Amendment SA 1 to SB 78 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-06-21 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-22 Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-10-05 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72b0c807-139e-4d5d-8feb-ebd4f28fa3eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).