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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SAFE ARMS FOR BABIES."
+description: "According to the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have enacted infant safe haven laws that allow a parent to surrender a newborn without fear of prosecution."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 161"
+citation: "Delaware SB 161 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Lambert", "Marie Pinkney", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-06-03"
+last_action: "2021-10-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfc24525-1b63-4b5c-82f8-8255cb2f08e6"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78788"
+source_hash: "018f0ec795fb53dc9b74f0bdce5a1b672101a85a2c8d9579e7f626b870f3a5f3"
+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 SB 161 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SAFE ARMS FOR BABIES.
+
+According to the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have enacted infant safe haven laws that allow a parent to surrender a newborn without fear of prosecution.
+
+## 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=78788&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB161)
+2. **HA 1 to SB 161** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78984&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-11** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-24** Amendment HA 1 to SB 161 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-29** Amendment HA 1 to SB 161 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-10-14** 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/cfc24525-1b63-4b5c-82f8-8255cb2f08e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+