Bill Text: IA HF2370 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the provision of information regarding postadoption services to all adoptive families. (Formerly HSB 614.) Effective 7-1-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-28 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 700. [HF2370 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2370-Enrolled.html

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House File 2370 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                  RESOURCES

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 614)
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                                        House File 2370

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION REGARDING
    POSTADOPTION SERVICES TO ALL ADOPTIVE FAMILIES.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  600.7B  Postadoption information.
    The department shall develop and furnish to the state
 registrar of vital statistics a document listing all
 postadoption services available to adoptive families in the
 state, to be delivered along with a copy of the new birth
 certificate to the parents named in the adoption decree
 pursuant to section 600.13.
    Sec. 2.  Section 600.13, subsection 5, Code 2018, is amended
 to read as follows:
    5.  a.  An interlocutory or a final adoption decree shall be
 entered with the clerk of court. Such decree shall set forth
 any facts of the adoption petition which have been proven to
 the satisfaction of the juvenile court or court and any other
 facts considered to be relevant by the juvenile court or court
 and shall grant the adoption petition. If so designated in
 the adoption decree, the name of the adopted person shall be
 changed by issuance of that decree.
    b.  The clerk of the court shall, within thirty days of
 issuance, deliver one certified copy of any adoption decree
 to the petitioner, one copy of any adoption decree to the
 department and any adoption service provider who placed a minor
 person for adoption, and one certification of adoption as
 prescribed in section 144.19 to the state registrar of vital
 statistics at no charge.
    c.  Upon receipt of the certification, the state registrar
 shall prepare a new birth certificate pursuant to section
 144.23 and deliver shall do one of the following, as
 applicable:
    (1)  Deliver to the parents named in the decree and any
 adult person adopted by the decree a copy of the new birth
 certificate along with a document, developed and furnished by
 the department, listing all postadoption services available to
 adoptive families in the state.
    (2)  Deliver to any adult person adopted by the decree a copy
 of the new birth certificate.  
    d.  The parents shall pay the fee prescribed in section
 144.46.
    e.  If the person adopted was born outside this state but
 in the United States, the state registrar shall forward the
 certification of adoption to the appropriate agency in the
 state of birth.
    f.  A copy of any interlocutory adoption decree vacation
 shall be delivered and another birth certificate shall be
 prepared in the same manner as a certification of adoption is
 delivered and the birth certificate was originally prepared.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            CHARLES SCHNEIDE


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            KIM REYNOLDS

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