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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD DEATH REVIEWS.	This Act clarifies that the reviews of child and maternal deaths are confidential and may not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Death Review Commission are protected.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 183	Delaware HB 183 (149)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B Lopez Margaret Rose Henry Melanie George Smith Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2017-05-16	2017-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f4c0ef19-3a49-40a1-9c61-bdbf76197c9d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25793	8ae5d13c162ad0f640b49b9b2e7643ce052329051b2aee878bcc9443583b6e3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 183 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD DEATH REVIEWS.

This Act clarifies that the reviews of child and maternal deaths are confidential and may not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Death Review Commission are protected.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 36–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-16 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-15 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-15 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-08-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4c0ef19-3a49-40a1-9c61-bdbf76197c9d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).