republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-278.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6 AND 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE.	This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our State’s franchise laws and ensure that Delaware consumers have a stable, reliable, convenient, and competitive retail network for automobile sales and service. This Act is an effort to continue to ensure that the relationship between dealers and the manufacturers and distributors is as fair and equitable as possible and provides the highest level of consumer protection. The Act includes the following provisions:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 278	Delaware SB 278 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Daniel B. Short David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Franklin D. Cooke Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Michael F. Smith Michael Ramone Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby Valerie Longhurst	2	9	2	2024-06-11	2024-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/5c768853-d21c-4f39-acc9-48a65a1db459	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141560	7ed72ee2e1a3e57471a4c3193f918f85bd9bedf57698293a39edbbc2f2433b84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 278 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6 AND 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMERCE AND TRADE.

This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our State’s franchise laws and ensure that Delaware consumers have a stable, reliable, convenient, and competitive retail network for automobile sales and service. This Act is an effort to continue to ensure that the relationship between dealers and the manufacturers and distributors is as fair and equitable as possible and provides the highest level of consumer protection. The Act includes the following provisions:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SS 2 for SB 278 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/4 — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• 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)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-11 Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 278, and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-13 Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2024-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-13 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c768853-d21c-4f39-acc9-48a65a1db459. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).