republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-462.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE OF CHILDREN.	This Act permits multidisciplinary team members to share information freely amongst themselves to better protect the welfare of abused children in the State of Delaware. This Act also establishes a framework for parties in Family Court civil proceedings to have access to records created and maintained by a child advocacy center related to forensic interviews it conducts such that the Family Court can utilize those records to avoid retraumatizing children by having to interview them again as part of court proceedings.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 462	Delaware HB 462 (151)	bill		enacted	Krista Griffith Kyle Evans Gay Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	9	2	2022-06-08	2022-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/cebf32f6-5052-49c6-abfd-470b7f4c0812	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=119637	d70272db0e950b60883f5e3e242517da9c7d0264e2a29b8da2e1a7929336d68c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 462 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE OF CHILDREN.

This Act permits multidisciplinary team members to share information freely amongst themselves to better protect the welfare of abused children in the State of Delaware. This Act also establishes a framework for parties in Family Court civil proceedings to have access to records created and maintained by a child advocacy center related to forensic interviews it conducts such that the Family Court can utilize those records to avoid retraumatizing children by having to interview them again as part of court proceedings.

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 462 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-08 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 Amendment HA 1 to HB 462 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 462 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-16 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-16 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-10-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cebf32f6-5052-49c6-abfd-470b7f4c0812. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).