republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-48.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT.	This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Intentional interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exit after being lawfully ordered to do so by the school bus driver; wrongfully restricting the movement of a school bus; or threatening the school bus driver, a student, or any passenger entering, leaving, or waiting for a school bus. A student or passenger otherwise authorized to be on the school bus in the ordinary course of business may not be guilty of disorderly conduct for intentional interference with the operation of a school bus.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 48	Delaware SB 48 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Daniel B. Short Franklin D. Cooke Laura V. Sturgeon Lyndon D. Yearick Melanie Ross Levin	2	15	3	2025-01-22	2025-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/edd3d1bd-2388-446f-ae94-8a46583c046d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141811	722db476c4b1cb143db9441bbb199255a829ceecf1190dbf1ba98e91dee49ce9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 48 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Intentional interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exit after being lawfully ordered to do so by the school bus driver; wrongfully restricting the movement of a school bus; or threatening the school bus driver, a student, or any passenger entering, leaving, or waiting for a school bus. A student or passenger otherwise authorized to be on the school bus in the ordinary course of business may not be guilty of disorderly conduct for intentional interference with the operation of a school bus.

Version chain

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

1. HA 2 to SB 48 (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 48 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 37–2 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-22 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15 Amendment SA 1 to SB 48 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Amendment SA 1 to SB 48 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2025-05-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-13 Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Not Worked in Committee
• 2025-06-11 Amendment HA 1 to SB 48 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-17 Amendment HA 2 to SB 48 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to SB 48 - Defeated By House. Votes: 8 YES 30 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT amendment-failure
• 2025-06-25 Amendment HA 2 to SB 48 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-06-25 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-09-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/edd3d1bd-2388-446f-ae94-8a46583c046d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).