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Senate committee advances bill allowing adult adoptees access to pre‑2022 birth records
Summary
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee voted to send House Bill 47 to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation. The bill would give adoptees who were adopted before July 1, 2022 access to birth records at age 18, with a 30‑day contact notice to registered birth parents and an option for temporary redaction.
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee voted to send House Bill 47 to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation after testimony from the bill’s sponsors and supporters.
House Bill 47, introduced to the committee by Senator Brandon Shippey and sponsored in the House by Representative Julianne Young and Representative Barbara Ehart, would allow adoptees adopted prior to July 1, 2022, to request their original birth records once they turn 18. The bill preserves a process for birth parents to register contact preferences and request temporary redaction of identifying information.
Representative Julianne Young, the primary sponsor, told the committee the bill is “not about imposing any course of action on any adoptee or any…
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