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Committee backs measure to expand adult adoptees’ access to original birth records with court options to seal
Summary
A substitute to HB 129 would make original birth certificates available to adult adoptees by default while preserving a court process by which a birth parent can request records remain sealed; the committee approved the substitute after extended public testimony from adoptees and birth parents.
The Senate Health and Human Services Standing Committee recommended favorably on the second substitute to HB 129, the adoption records access amendments.
Sponsor remarks explained the bill would change the default for closed-adoption records so an adult adoptee is able to request their original birth certificate without first seeking a judicial finding of ‘‘good cause.’’ The substitute narrower scope limits the documents made available…
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