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House approves adoption code revisions after debate over implied-consent and notice safeguards
Summary
Senate Bill 232 updates adoption code provisions to clarify effective notice dates, protect putative fathers and allow pre-birth court orders for custody agencies; sponsors emphasized that implied consent must be established by a court and that notice procedures remain required. The bill passed 71-1.
The House on March 14 passed Senate Bill 232, a package of adoption code revisions intended to protect putative fathers, clarify the effective date for notices filed with vital records and allow a pre-birth court order enabling an agency to hold a child pending completion of an adoption.
Representative Snow (presenting the bill) summarized changes prompted in part by a 2012 Supreme Court decision in which a father’s notice was not recorded in time, resulting…
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