republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-476.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GOLD ALERT PROGRAM.	This Act requires all law-enforcement agencies to remove all Gold Alert notifications of missing persons from all social media and all websites within 72 hours of being notified that the missing person has been located.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 476	Delaware HB 476 (151)	bill		enacted	Krista Griffith Kyle Evans Gay	2	9	2	2022-06-10	2022-10-26	openstates	ocd-bill/e3e30941-e13f-4520-a823-c3cf417bfac0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129683	1481cd4e821aedec3b4125fc5b19cfc502c2c7d769470cf84fb050e64b39cbde	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 476 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GOLD ALERT PROGRAM.

This Act requires all law-enforcement agencies to remove all Gold Alert notifications of missing persons from all social media and all websites within 72 hours of being notified that the missing person has been located.

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 476 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-10 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 476 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 476 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-21 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-10-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3e30941-e13f-4520-a823-c3cf417bfac0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).