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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORIZED SCOOTERS."
description: "This Act allows a large municipality to permit the rental of a low-speed motorized scooter through ordinance or other regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 266"
citation: "Delaware HB 266 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Josue O Ortega", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Ray Seigfried", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4555b3a4-15ae-4f07-bf0e-b1ecccf1545b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142762"
source_hash: "16abbdf6e4475e56656709ae7933472b020b945e71b4bc3fa0d7502bd150d979"
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 266 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MOTORIZED SCOOTERS.
This Act allows a large municipality to permit the rental of a low-speed motorized scooter through ordinance or other regulation.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SA 1 to HB 266** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142936&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-13** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2026-01-28** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-11** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-12** Amendment SA 1 to HB 266 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2026-03-12** Amendment SA 1 to HB 266 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-03-27** 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/4555b3a4-15ae-4f07-bf0e-b1ecccf1545b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).