Delaware House Bill 247 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)
Status: Passed on November 1 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-11-01 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

There were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked state agencies to meet that goal by 2025. Instead of moving towards meeting the General Assemblys goal, however, traffic fatalities increased to 165 in 2022, deepening the crisis on Delawares roads. To reverse this situation, the Everyone Gets Home Act makes changes to the Delaware Code to sharpen the Department of Transportations focus on the three most common types of fatal crashes: intersection (including driveway); roadway departure; and mid-block pedestrian. This Act clarifies the Departments authority to designate controlled-access facilities as a safety countermeasure for both intersection and midblock pedestrian crashes and, when the facility designation has received the consent of county government, requires counties to use their own authority to assist the Department in consolidating vehicle entrances and exits to and from the facility. In addition, this Act authorizes the Department to designate roadways as low-speed streets and low-speed local roads in order to address fatal roadway departure crashes related to vehicle speed, and permits counties to request such designations to meet their own traffic safety goals. Finally, this Act expands the Departments discretion to deploy new traffic-control devices in order to reduce fatal crashes.

An Act To Amend Titles 9 And 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Traffic Safety.

Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]
Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Ronald Gray [R]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]
Rep. Sophie Phillips [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]
Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]

2024-06-26 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-06-25 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-06-13 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-11-01		Signed by Governor
2024-06-26		Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT
2024-06-25		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-06-25		Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-06-20		Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-06-20		Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2024-06-13		Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate
2024-06-13		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2024-06-11		was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 247

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Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#56193