republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-124.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.	This Act clarifies when reports of child abuse or neglect, including suspected human trafficking of a child, are required to be made orally to the Department’s report line and when they may be made via the Department’s online reporting portal. This Act also clarifies that licensed professionals who make reports may not remain anonymous.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 124	Delaware SB 124 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Cyndie Romer Darius J. Brown David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Kendra Johnson Kyle Evans Gay Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Ruth Briggs King	1	7	2	2023-05-11	2023-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/31797090-ee54-410c-9766-9167a1835055	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130357	289c92d3d23d234519066380df0ed4d7177be55e4da11ab4a7895fbb45928f31	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 124 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.

This Act clarifies when reports of child abuse or neglect, including suspected human trafficking of a child, are required to be made orally to the Department’s report line and when they may be made via the Department’s online reporting portal. This Act also clarifies that licensed professionals who make reports may not remain anonymous.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-11 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2023-06-07 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2023-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2023-07-31 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31797090-ee54-410c-9766-9167a1835055. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).