Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Session
- 153
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Not supplied
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-04-09 00:00:00
Alternate titles
- Vehicle Security Circumvention Device/Prohibit short title
Source-supplied abstracts
This Act makes it a crime to knowingly manufacture, sell, offer to sell, transfer, or possess a vehicle security circumvention device, or to aid or permit another to use a vehicle security circumvention device. This Act also requires individuals to report a lost or stolen vehicle security circumvention device to a law enforcement agency within 48 hours of becoming aware of the loss or theft. This Act does not include a special penalty as the Chapter already provides a penalty for misdemeanors, which includes a fine not less than $28.75 nor more than $115, or imprisonment not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days, or both. Additionally, for each subsequent offense the person shall be fined not less than $115 nor more than $230, or imprisoned not less than 90 days nor more than 6 months, or both. This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage because ยง 28 of Article IV of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly to create a new crime within the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas, Family Court, or Justice of the Peace Court.
Sponsors
- Franklin D. Cooke (primary), primary
- Darius J. Brown (primary), primary
- Laura V. Sturgeon (primary), primary
- Josue O Ortega (primary), primary
- Edward S. Osienski (primary), primary
- Kerri Evelyn Harris (primary), primary
- Claire Snyder-Hall (primary), primary
- Ray Seigfried (primary), primary