republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-288.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE SAFETY.	This bill would create a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use flashing headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without allowing the use of flashing lights that would otherwise be used on emergency vehicles. The bill aims to protect motorcyclists on Delaware’s roads and has a sunsetting provision that will allow time for further traffic studies to determine the effectiveness of this pilot program.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 288	Delaware SB 288 (151)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Daniel B. Short	2	11	2	2022-05-06	2022-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8009ab36-816b-41f1-8707-cc15a30ce681	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109460	96d8c4f0bd2832de488d1d0674dba7562c89dfe9864994465e92645fb741660c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 288 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE SAFETY.

This bill would create a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use flashing headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without allowing the use of flashing lights that would otherwise be used on emergency vehicles. The bill aims to protect motorcyclists on Delaware’s roads and has a sunsetting provision that will allow time for further traffic studies to determine the effectiveness of this pilot program.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 288 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-06 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-08 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2022-06-08 Amendment SA 1 to SB 288 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-09 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2022-06-09 Amendment SA 1 to SB 288 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2022-06-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-10 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-07-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8009ab36-816b-41f1-8707-cc15a30ce681. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).