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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPEED EXHIBITIONS, DRAG RACING, AND OTHER SPEED CONTESTS."
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description: "During the 151st General Assembly, House Bill No. 328 was passed updating the law relating to drag racing and other speed contests. This bill makes a small change to that law by specifying that tag-surrender in lieu of impoundment is available as a penalty only for Delaware-registered vehicles."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 57"
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citation: "Delaware HB 57 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-01-19"
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last_action: "2023-05-31"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/906e7eb6-6509-4503-8bd7-93c3788ec46e"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129962"
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source_hash: "71c4cecab87f4cae7fe2c6a8df76fdf90b072cc15190ce99feea033a9285ef65"
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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 57 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPEED EXHIBITIONS, DRAG RACING, AND OTHER SPEED CONTESTS.
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During the 151st General Assembly, House Bill No. 328 was passed updating the law relating to drag racing and other speed contests. This bill makes a small change to that law by specifying that tag-surrender in lieu of impoundment is available as a penalty only for Delaware-registered vehicles.
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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=129962&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB57)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-19** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-01-24** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-03-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-03-09** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-29** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-05-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2023-05-31** 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/906e7eb6-6509-4503-8bd7-93c3788ec46e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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