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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 16 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RESPONSES TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT."
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description: "This bill clarifies that the reviews of child abuse and neglect deaths and near deaths are confidential and should not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Protection Accountability Commission are protected. Finally, the bill clarifies that any duties of the State for public disclosure in these cases under the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act will not be fulfilled by these confidential reviews conducted by the Commission as Delaware’s Citizen Review Panel."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "149"
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identifier: "HB 182"
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citation: "Delaware HB 182 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B Lopez", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Melanie George Smith", "Valerie Longhurst"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-05-16"
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last_action: "2017-08-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11c0f9c8-3f69-4ce3-90a7-d1a250eb82d1"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25792"
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source_hash: "43b8037515f6c99b71918139eea909f7f05eccc4f8d74a8277406d036a423e0b"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 182 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 16 AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RESPONSES TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.
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This bill clarifies that the reviews of child abuse and neglect deaths and near deaths are confidential and should not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Protection Accountability Commission are protected. Finally, the bill clarifies that any duties of the State for public disclosure in these cases under the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act will not be fulfilled by these confidential reviews conducted by the Commission as Delaware’s Citizen Review Panel.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25792&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB182)
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## Votes
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- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
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- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
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- Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-15** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2017-06-15** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2017-08-30** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11c0f9c8-3f69-4ce3-90a7-d1a250eb82d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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