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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES."
description: "This Act creates an Electric Vehicle Rebate Program to incentivize the purchase and lease of new and used electric vehicles by Delaware residents. All-electric vehicles shall receive a rebate of no more than $2,500 and hybrid vehicles shall receive a rebate of no more than $1,000. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control shall develop standards, forms, and procedures necessary to implement this program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Delaware HB 12 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sophie Phillips", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-02"
last_action: "2023-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0ad23cb-5f57-46b0-a571-cbae35ebd563"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130286"
source_hash: "14e04ef388333fc44d9a7ba4b077055688d45d8efcf65c6f5eb35210f1f1993a"
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 12 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
This Act creates an Electric Vehicle Rebate Program to incentivize the purchase and lease of new and used electric vehicles by Delaware residents. All-electric vehicles shall receive a rebate of no more than $2,500 and hybrid vehicles shall receive a rebate of no more than $1,000. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control shall develop standards, forms, and procedures necessary to implement this program.
## 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=130286&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB12)
2. **HA 1 to HB 12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140576&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **164** (pass) · upper
- SM — **2614** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sophie Phillips — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-05-02** Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 12 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 6 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 On Its Merits, 4 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 12 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 14 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-20** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-08-03** 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/b0ad23cb-5f57-46b0-a571-cbae35ebd563`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).