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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RED CLAY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUS SAFETY CAMERA PILOT PROGRAM."
description: "This Act makes changes to House Bill 202 from the 150th General Assembly creating a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to use external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that fail to stop when a school bus is stopped and displaying flashing lamps to take on or discharge school children and assess a civil penalty as punishment. The changes in this bill are necessary to make clear that the Act, which mirrors 21 Del. C. § 4101(d), the States Electronic Red Light Safety Program, only creates a civil, not a criminal penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Delaware HB 120 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-18"
last_action: "2021-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd9bd0da-af3f-45b9-aaa4-1f8e5a9116db"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48484"
source_hash: "f1d3046f07b827eb911489108d789bc613d3bfe1f7af22c77c8c7c422f945c2b"
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 HB 120 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RED CLAY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUS SAFETY CAMERA PILOT PROGRAM.
This Act makes changes to House Bill 202 from the 150th General Assembly creating a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to use external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that fail to stop when a school bus is stopped and displaying flashing lamps to take on or discharge school children and assess a civil penalty as punishment. The changes in this bill are necessary to make clear that the Act, which mirrors 21 Del. C. § 4101(d), the States Electronic Red Light Safety Program, only creates a civil, not a criminal penalty.
## 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=48484&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB120)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **192** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-18** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-04-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-04-22** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-30** 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/bd9bd0da-af3f-45b9-aaa4-1f8e5a9116db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).