Bill Text: CT HB05300 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring A Study Of Optional Admission Into An Adoption Registry.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-10 - File Number 360 [HB05300 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05300-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5300
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 1494
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
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AN ACT REQUIRING A STUDY OF OPTIONAL ADMISSION INTO AN ADOPTION REGISTRY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Children and Families, shall study the feasibility of establishing an adoption registry to provide a means by which a registrant may authorize or prohibit the release of identifying information to others involved in the adoption of a person. Such study shall examine the advantages of the voluntary exchange of contact information and the voluntary and anonymous exchange of vital medical information between (1) an adopted person or, if the adopted person is deceased, a family member of the adopted person, and (2) one or both of the birth parents of the adopted person or, if a birth parent is deceased, a family member of such birth parent. Not later than January 1, 2019, the Commissioner of Public Health shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health regarding the outcome of the study.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

PH

Joint Favorable