Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee Meeting

Wednesday, March 11, 2026·37m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee advanced two bills — one enabling municipal scooter-sharing programs and one removing the statutory 8% net metering cap — while declining to advance a third bill after Delmarva Power voluntarily agreed to apply the prudent standard of review to its pending rate case.

Key Actions

·HB 266 – Municipal Motorized Scooter RentalsPassed

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Controversies

Population threshold of 30,000 in HB 266

Senator Pettyjohn questioned why HB 266 is limited to municipalities of 30,000 or more, noting that coastal towns might also want scooter programs, and indicated willingness to discuss a friendly amendment to include all municipalities. Senator Brown responded that the threshold was set in the context of not wanting to infringe on what local governments want to do, and said that if Pettyjohn wants to add a friendly amendment he thinks Pettyjohn's comments would be friendly to include all municipalities.

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Notable Quotes

“And they said, okay, we've hit this at 5%, we can now say no more debt metering. And they did. And so we had the city of Seaford that did that. We had the town of Middletown that did that as well. And so what would happen is someone would go to put a solar system on a roof, they”
Senator Stephanie Hansen — Senator Hansen was explaining the practical effect of the existing 8% net metering cap in Delaware Code — the cap that SB 239 proposes to remove — on prospective solar customers.

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Votes

HB 266 — bill circulated for signatureNo Vote

SB 239 — bill circulated for sign outNo Vote

SB 242 — bill not circulatedNo Vote

Motion to adjournNo Vote

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TranscriptPreview

This is the Senate Energy Environment Transportation Committee and the meeting is hereby called to order. I'm State Senator Stephanie Hanson. Today's date is 3-11-2026. Chair of the committee and in accordance with senate rules this committee is authorized to meet in a hybrid format. Committee members and members of public can participate either in person or virtually through zoom webinar. The public may participate virtually by registering via the meeting link that is posted on the General Assembly's website and the instructions for providing public comment are posted under this committee meeting's notice. Members of the public are also welcome to attend the meeting in person and should submit sign the sign in document for attendance and to indicate if they would like to speak on a bill. We'll begin today's meeting by taking a roll call. Attendance of the committee members present. Your name is called. Please affirm your attendance. Senator Russ Huxtable. Here. Senator Elizabeth Lochner. Here. Senator Spiros Mansavinos. Absent. Senator Trey Pardee. Absent. Senator Ray Sickry. Present. Senator Eric Clarkson and Senator Brian Petty. President myself has a quorum with a sufficient number of members being president. President. The committee will move on to the…

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