republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-40.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENT OF INSURANCE FOR ALL MOTOR VEHICLES.	This bill allows the Court to suspend an amount of the fine for uninsured driving if the defendant provides evidence that they have now secured insurance, demonstrating compliance with the law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 40	Delaware SB 40 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Kyle Evans Gay Larry Lambert Sean M. Lynn William Bush	1	8	2	2021-03-09	2021-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ea72a5fd-c580-49bc-915e-fed191f2fa6f	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48433	812a13044ba7e77ece3aae098502ce306e863bd3ef47314a834ee4d26a582eef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 40 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENT OF INSURANCE FOR ALL MOTOR VEHICLES.

This bill allows the Court to suspend an amount of the fine for uninsured driving if the defendant provides evidence that they have now secured insurance, demonstrating compliance with the law.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 16–5 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-09 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO passage
• 2021-03-31 Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-07 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-05-13 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2021-07-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea72a5fd-c580-49bc-915e-fed191f2fa6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).