republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-194.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 2 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC CARRIERS.	This Act decreases the minimum amount of insurance to be required by taxicab drivers. SB 209, as amended, from the 151st General Assembly increased the required minimum insurance for all public carriers to $1,000,000 for death, bodily injury, and property damages and $1,000,000 for uninsured and underinsured insurance. HB 194 lowers the minimum amount of insurance required by taxicabs issued a medallion to $100,000 for death and bodily injury, $50,000 for property damages, and $300,000 for uninsured and underinsured insurance.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 194	Delaware HB 194 (152)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Paul S. Baumbach	1	6	2	2023-06-20	2023-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/1d0378ab-7067-4db3-8568-b5935548af33	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140669	eddf84a2cf979ae4b21524adeed395cd5ea83fb526ac0d1805eca6a86af69087	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 194 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 2 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC CARRIERS.

This Act decreases the minimum amount of insurance to be required by taxicab drivers. SB 209, as amended, from the 151st General Assembly increased the required minimum insurance for all public carriers to $1,000,000 for death, bodily injury, and property damages and $1,000,000 for uninsured and underinsured insurance. HB 194 lowers the minimum amount of insurance required by taxicabs issued a medallion to $100,000 for death and bodily injury, $50,000 for property damages, and $300,000 for uninsured and underinsured insurance.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 34–5 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-20 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 194 introduction
• 2023-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 5 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-21 Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d0378ab-7067-4db3-8568-b5935548af33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).