republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-59.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS.	This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 59	Delaware HB 59 (151)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Franklin D. Cooke Stephen Smyk William J. Carson	2	9	2	2020-12-18	2021-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48235	421b061a01a7dd07dbdb1c956c9d6025d03079c3e18c38fe5268dbc34779da4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 59 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS.

This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headlights, taillights, turn signal lights, and lighting on a motorcycle.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 59 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 59 - Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO amendment-passage
• 2021-03-25 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-03-25 Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-09-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b0338fc-8566-4e97-ada5-7def97e7686b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).