republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-217.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES.	Historically, vehicles under the control of the Delaware State Fire Commission have been equipped with emergency lights. This bill amends Section 4106 to clarify and confirm that vehicles of the Delaware State Fire Prevention Commission are emergency vehicles that may be equipped with emergency lights.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 217	Delaware SB 217 (151)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Daniel B. Short John L. Mitchell Sherry Dorsey Walker William J. Carson	1	7	2	2022-01-26	2022-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/103d9fed-cb82-4d4f-8754-cf8dde2acdb2	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79120	b66109197011e28bb0891c9e27f711d1ebac0acfc8c4b38bbe6b1da5c3cc11d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 217 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

Historically, vehicles under the control of the Delaware State Fire Commission have been equipped with emergency lights. This bill amends Section 4106 to clarify and confirm that vehicles of the Delaware State Fire Prevention Commission are emergency vehicles that may be equipped with emergency lights.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-26 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-04-07 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-07-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/103d9fed-cb82-4d4f-8754-cf8dde2acdb2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).