---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 13 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VOLUNTARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF PATERNTIY."
description: "This Act prohibits minor parents from executing a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 432"
citation: "Delaware HB 432 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-18"
last_action: "2022-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66790642-c33b-4352-82bf-f94630a31f31"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109542"
source_hash: "33a4336b0a34d34f4d6e8a6ead3c13bbfd147ebd2706452d205bbcb3537262cd"
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 432 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 13 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VOLUNTARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF PATERNTIY.

This Act prohibits minor parents from executing a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

## 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=109542&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB432)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-05-18** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-26** 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/66790642-c33b-4352-82bf-f94630a31f31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).