republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-329.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON APPROACH OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES.	This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual signals, or a police vehicle using an audible signal only. The fines are increased and after two penalties, a person who violates this section will be subject to a 90-day suspension of their driver’s license. This change in fines and loss of driving privileges increases the penalty to make this a serious offense. This Act also clarifies that a driver who is unable to safely yield the right of way must slow to at least 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 329	Delaware HB 329 (152)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Franklin D. Cooke Jeff Hilovsky Lyndon D. Yearick Stell Parker Selby Valerie Jones Giltner	2	14	2	2024-03-07	2024-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/457df9ef-79dc-4dff-be35-49581fa118e8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140998	691879c0f8cbbff41c5c17ca2686a90322b0cd8c325cdc2c997adc7d47a9a1e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 329 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON APPROACH OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual signals, or a police vehicle using an audible signal only. The fines are increased and after two penalties, a person who violates this section will be subject to a 90-day suspension of their driver’s license. This change in fines and loss of driving privileges increases the penalty to make this a serious offense. This Act also clarifies that a driver who is unable to safely yield the right of way must slow to at least 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 4 to HB 329 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Jeff Hilovsky — primary (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Valerie Jones Giltner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-07 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-19 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 8 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-05-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 329 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-26 Amendment HA 2 to HB 329 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 329 - Stricken in House
• 2024-06-27 Amendment HA 2 to HB 329 - Stricken in House
• 2024-06-27 Amendment HA 4 to HB 329 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2024-06-27 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-09-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/457df9ef-79dc-4dff-be35-49581fa118e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).