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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE OF CHILDREN."
+description: "This Act permits multidisciplinary team members to share information freely amongst themselves to better protect the welfare of abused children in the State of Delaware. This Act also establishes a framework for parties in Family Court civil proceedings to have access to records created and maintained by a child advocacy center related to forensic interviews it conducts such that the Family Court can utilize those records to avoid retraumatizing children by having to interview them again as part of court proceedings."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 462"
+citation: "Delaware HB 462 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-06-08"
+last_action: "2022-10-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cebf32f6-5052-49c6-abfd-470b7f4c0812"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=119637"
+source_hash: "d70272db0e950b60883f5e3e242517da9c7d0264e2a29b8da2e1a7929336d68c"
+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 462 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE OF CHILDREN.
+
+This Act permits multidisciplinary team members to share information freely amongst themselves to better protect the welfare of abused children in the State of Delaware. This Act also establishes a framework for parties in Family Court civil proceedings to have access to records created and maintained by a child advocacy center related to forensic interviews it conducts such that the Family Court can utilize those records to avoid retraumatizing children by having to interview them again as part of court proceedings.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=119637&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB462)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 462** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129688&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 462 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 462 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2022-10-10** 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/cebf32f6-5052-49c6-abfd-470b7f4c0812`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+