republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-243.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RELEASE AND PUBLICATION OF THE NAME AND PHOTOGRAPH OF A JUVENILE.	This bill prohibits law-enforcement agencies from releasing or publishing or causing to be released or published the name of any juvenile or any image depicting a juvenile, including displaying such image on any publicly maintained social media page or website, unless the juvenile is charged with a violent felony, and release or publication of the photograph is necessary to protect the public’s safety.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 243	Delaware HB 243 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Ernesto B. Lopez Franklin D. Cooke Kendra Johnson Larry Lambert Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha S. Elizabeth Lockman Sean M. Lynn Sherae'a Moore Sherry Dorsey Walker Stephanie T. Bolden Valerie Longhurst	2	9	2	2021-06-10	2021-11-08	openstates	ocd-bill/41810188-bed1-4014-9f3c-39d5ea5add95	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78885	417a30e96e1cb1712ead1749c4eb0d71ac97ea1025cb53bfd94d95b2d728f769	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 243 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RELEASE AND PUBLICATION OF THE NAME AND PHOTOGRAPH OF A JUVENILE.

This bill prohibits law-enforcement agencies from releasing or publishing or causing to be released or published the name of any juvenile or any image depicting a juvenile, including displaying such image on any publicly maintained social media page or website, unless the juvenile is charged with a violent felony, and release or publication of the photograph is necessary to protect the public’s safety.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 243 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 243 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-22 Amendment HA 1 to HB 243 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-22 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-06-22 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-11-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41810188-bed1-4014-9f3c-39d5ea5add95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).