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

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Bill	CREATING A TOLL VIOLATION AMNESTY PROGRAM.	This Senate Joint Resolution creates a one-time, Toll Violation Amnesty Program (Amnesty Program) to provide a 3 month long opportunity for people to satisfy toll debt that is in collection from toll violations that occurred on I-95 and SR 1. The Amnesty Program will collect funds that the State would probably otherwise never receive. Each year, the Department of Transportation collects over $190 million from over 70,600,000 toll transactions on I-95 and SR 1. However, Delaware is owed over $143.4 million in toll debt from unpaid tolls, penalties, and fees from toll violations on these highways. The most recent 3-year average collection rate of toll debt is 8.4%.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SJR 5	Delaware SJR 5 (151)	joint resolution		enacted	Darius J. Brown Edward S. Osienski Stephanie L. Hansen	1	11	2	2021-06-03	2021-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/51b9faa3-82c7-4071-98f0-3230d8aa8365	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78813	bbe0e21c7caa1eb0d1e8528c74367b8951e411857fc2a3ebe3970f8b6efe82f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SJR 5 (151) — CREATING A TOLL VIOLATION AMNESTY PROGRAM.

This Senate Joint Resolution creates a one-time, Toll Violation Amnesty Program (Amnesty Program) to provide a 3 month long opportunity for people to satisfy toll debt that is in collection from toll violations that occurred on I-95 and SR 1. The Amnesty Program will collect funds that the State would probably otherwise never receive. Each year, the Department of Transportation collects over $190 million from over 70,600,000 toll transactions on I-95 and SR 1. However, Delaware is owed over $143.4 million in toll debt from unpaid tolls, penalties, and fees from toll violations on these highways. The most recent 3-year average collection rate of toll debt is 8.4%.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-10 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-06-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-11 Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-09-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51b9faa3-82c7-4071-98f0-3230d8aa8365. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).