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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRAG RACING AND OTHER DANGEROUS OPERATIONS OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES."
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description: "This Act makes several adjustments to the law prohibiting drag racing and other speed contests. Many individuals lawfully gather to share their enthusiasm for vehicles and may do so while abiding the rules of the road and without otherwise endangering persons or property. However, others have taken their enthusiasm into dangerous directions that often results in damage to property, injury, or death. For example, Kirkwood Highway has experienced an uptick in large crowds engaged in dangerous driving behavior and as the result of a drag racing event at the Christiana Mall Fashion Center, there was a vehicular fatality. Whether by drag racing, trick or stunt riding, conducting burnouts in intersections, doing donuts in parking lots, or taking over roadways to showboat, these dangers are further amplified by the crowd size that follows and the attempted notoriety sought through social media posts."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 328"
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citation: "Delaware HB 328 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John L. Mitchell", "Kimberly Williams", "Krista Griffith", "Michael F. Smith", "Michael Ramone", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 10
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-08"
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last_action: "2022-04-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf807416-34fb-4143-8436-ffb2759d0faf"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79191"
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source_hash: "7611e120aef1242bf5f3cf7a8b006ff152c3acb131d355aaaf05cb7245d13977"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 328 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 AND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRAG RACING AND OTHER DANGEROUS OPERATIONS OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES.
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This Act makes several adjustments to the law prohibiting drag racing and other speed contests. Many individuals lawfully gather to share their enthusiasm for vehicles and may do so while abiding the rules of the road and without otherwise endangering persons or property. However, others have taken their enthusiasm into dangerous directions that often results in damage to property, injury, or death. For example, Kirkwood Highway has experienced an uptick in large crowds engaged in dangerous driving behavior and as the result of a drag racing event at the Christiana Mall Fashion Center, there was a vehicular fatality. Whether by drag racing, trick or stunt riding, conducting burnouts in intersections, doing donuts in parking lots, or taking over roadways to showboat, these dangers are further amplified by the crowd size that follows and the attempted notoriety sought through social media posts.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79191&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB328)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 328** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79267&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
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- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
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- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-03-08** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-03-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 328 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-03-22** Vote type changed from Simple Majority (SM) to 2/3 Majority by amendment
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- **2022-03-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 328 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-03-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-03-22** Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-04-28** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf807416-34fb-4143-8436-ffb2759d0faf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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