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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GOLD ALERT PROGRAM."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 476"
citation: "Delaware HB 476 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-10"
last_action: "2022-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3e30941-e13f-4520-a823-c3cf417bfac0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129683"
source_hash: "1481cd4e821aedec3b4125fc5b19cfc502c2c7d769470cf84fb050e64b39cbde"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129683&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB476)
2. **HA 1 to HB 476** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129739&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3e30941-e13f-4520-a823-c3cf417bfac0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).