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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Delaware SB 217 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Daniel B. Short", "John L. Mitchell", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/103d9fed-cb82-4d4f-8754-cf8dde2acdb2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79120"
source_hash: "b66109197011e28bb0891c9e27f711d1ebac0acfc8c4b38bbe6b1da5c3cc11d9"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79120&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB217)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **410** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/103d9fed-cb82-4d4f-8754-cf8dde2acdb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).