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Committee sends bill to give adult adoptees broader access to original birth records to floor after debate over parent privacy
Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 47 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after advocates and adoptees testified in favor and some members sought an amendment to preserve birth-parent privacy; the motion to send the bill to general orders failed, and the due-pass motion passed 12–3 on a roll call.
House Bill 47, which would expand access to original birth records for older adoptees, was sent to the House floor by the House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee following several hours of testimony and debate.
Representative Barbara Ehart (sponsored in the committee by Representative Erickson and others) described the bill as extending access that many current adoptees already have to older adoptees who were adopted before recent changes. "This is about the adoptee having access to their records," Ehart said, adding that many adoptees seek family medical history…
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