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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLES."
description: "Senate Bill 89 from the first half of the 152nd General Assembly allowed for state owned-and-operated vehicles used for snow removal to operate with green revolving or flashing lights during winter weather operations. This Bill extends the same use of green lights on municipal owned-and-operated snow removal equipment and vehicles during winter weather operations. Studies have shown green lights are more visible to the traveling public during winter weather conditions. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 206"
citation: "Delaware SB 206 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Valerie Jones Giltner", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/089d3be2-40a7-4be2-8210-0f2d7a28d5ac"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140850"
source_hash: "c06dd3391f90a4c80642473cf1076abe8ea541099dcda0643d20a2683b81dbb5"
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 SB 206 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLES.
Senate Bill 89 from the first half of the 152nd General Assembly allowed for state owned-and-operated vehicles used for snow removal to operate with green revolving or flashing lights during winter weather operations. This Bill extends the same use of green lights on municipal owned-and-operated snow removal equipment and vehicles during winter weather operations. Studies have shown green lights are more visible to the traveling public during winter weather conditions. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
## 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=140850&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB206)
2. **SA 1 to SB 206** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141390&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Valerie Jones Giltner — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-17** Introduced and Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 206 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 206 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-26** 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/089d3be2-40a7-4be2-8210-0f2d7a28d5ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).