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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INDICATING THE HOLDER IS A VETERAN ON DRIVER LICENSES AND NONDRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARDS."
description: "This Act would add designation that the holder is a veteran to the Delaware Driver License or Identification Card upon request. Adding designation that the holder is a veteran to a Driver License or Identification Card would eliminate the need for a veteran to carry a separate card or official discharge forms in order to prove their service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 408"
citation: "Delaware HB 408 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-09"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b91d8e5-c54d-493b-903d-cc33638a200a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109454"
source_hash: "d06e9ec98079204e5e02411fadaf6a355773eabe0485b4ab76e31704db9e7499"
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 408 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INDICATING THE HOLDER IS A VETERAN ON DRIVER LICENSES AND NONDRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARDS.
This Act would add designation that the holder is a veteran to the Delaware Driver License or Identification Card upon request. Adding designation that the holder is a veteran to a Driver License or Identification Card would eliminate the need for a veteran to carry a separate card or official discharge forms in order to prove their service.
## 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=109454&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB408)
## Votes
- 3/5 — **210** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Veterans Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 16 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-09** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/7b91d8e5-c54d-493b-903d-cc33638a200a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).