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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SIZE AND WEIGHT OF VEHICLES AND LOADS."
description: "This Act authorizes the State and its counties and municipalities to install and use vehicle height monitoring systems (\"vehicle height monitoring system\") to assist in the enforcement of applicable State, county, or municipal law regarding motor vehicle size. This Act is patterned after Maryland's vehicle height monitoring system law, under which the City of Baltimore recently implemented an ordinance to use vehicle height monitoring system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "Delaware SB 131 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-31"
last_action: "2019-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37aa58e9-55c2-4634-840a-ffd0df99054e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47558"
source_hash: "d540948b98821ea5f9391edcc00a972a8c7c2919fed1cfceb2933485f26c494c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 131 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SIZE AND WEIGHT OF VEHICLES AND LOADS.
This Act authorizes the State and its counties and municipalities to install and use vehicle height monitoring systems ("vehicle height monitoring system") to assist in the enforcement of applicable State, county, or municipal law regarding motor vehicle size. This Act is patterned after Maryland's vehicle height monitoring system law, under which the City of Baltimore recently implemented an ordinance to use vehicle height monitoring system.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47558&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB131)
## Votes
- SM — **382** (pass) · lower
- SM — **160** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-31** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-18** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2019-06-18** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2019-06-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-19** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2019-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-08-15** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37aa58e9-55c2-4634-840a-ffd0df99054e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).