republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-5.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.	This Act creates an automatic voter registration system at the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and grants the State Election Commissioner the authority to implement automatic voter registration at other state agencies that already offer voter registration services under existing law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 5	Delaware SB 5 (151)	bill		enacted	David Bentz Kyle Evans Gay Madinah Wilson-Anton Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2021-03-11	2021-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/901b2da9-d630-484d-98a2-e2c8d5bbd6f4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48446	d6fb9c6ba471bd1019c29509373f45d40e2ec587fa3f11bc9b4f311025939080	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 5 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

This Act creates an automatic voter registration system at the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and grants the State Election Commissioner the authority to implement automatic voter registration at other state agencies that already offer voter registration services under existing 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 — 40–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 14–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-11 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2021-03-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO passage
• 2021-03-31 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-18 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO passage
• 2021-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/901b2da9-d630-484d-98a2-e2c8d5bbd6f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).