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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPEED EXHIBITIONS, DRAG RACING, AND OTHER SPEED CONTESTS."
description: "During the 151st General Assembly, House Bill No. 328 was passed updating the law relating to drag racing and other speed contests. This bill makes a small change to that law by specifying that tag-surrender in lieu of impoundment is available as a penalty only for Delaware-registered vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 57"
citation: "Delaware HB 57 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/906e7eb6-6509-4503-8bd7-93c3788ec46e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129962"
source_hash: "71c4cecab87f4cae7fe2c6a8df76fdf90b072cc15190ce99feea033a9285ef65"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 57 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPEED EXHIBITIONS, DRAG RACING, AND OTHER SPEED CONTESTS.
During the 151st General Assembly, House Bill No. 328 was passed updating the law relating to drag racing and other speed contests. This bill makes a small change to that law by specifying that tag-surrender in lieu of impoundment is available as a penalty only for Delaware-registered vehicles.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129962&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB57)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **201** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-19** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/906e7eb6-6509-4503-8bd7-93c3788ec46e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).