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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES."
description: "This bill adds the Department of Correction, Bureau of Prisons and Bureau of Community Corrections' vehicles to the list of \"authorized emergency vehicles\" identified in Chapter 41 of Title 21 that are afforded certain privileges when responding to an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "Delaware HB 211 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Ruth Briggs King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-03"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/362c110c-51c1-4c65-a947-c4e307f7eb44"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78781"
source_hash: "a69ec5e6392d030baefe6823e369666451d5b059e6098dc3dfa0cf3bbb0b42ce"
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 211 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES.
This bill adds the Department of Correction, Bureau of Prisons and Bureau of Community Corrections' vehicles to the list of "authorized emergency vehicles" identified in Chapter 41 of Title 21 that are afforded certain privileges when responding to an emergency.
## 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=78781&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB211)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-30** 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/362c110c-51c1-4c65-a947-c4e307f7eb44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).