Bill Amendment: IL SB2895 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

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Bill Title: HEALING THROUGH HISTORY ACT

Status: 2026-05-15 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [SB2895 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB2895-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Darby A. Hills

Filed: 2/18/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2895
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2895 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing
Section 18.4 as follows:
(750 ILCS 50/18.4) (from Ch. 40, par. 1522.4)
Sec. 18.4. Information provided to adoptive parents. (a)
The agency, Department of Children and Family Services, Court
Supportive Services, Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court,
or the Probation Officers of the Circuit Court involved in the
adoption proceedings shall give in writing the following
non-identifying information, if known, to the adoptive parents
not later than the date of placement with the petitioning
adoptive parents: (i) age of biological parents; (ii) their
race, religion and ethnic background; (iii) general physical
appearance of biological parents; (iv) their education,

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occupation, hobbies, interests and talents; (v) existence of
any other children born to the biological parents; (vi)
information about biological grandparents; reason for
emigrating into the United States, if applicable, and country
of origin; (vii) relationship between biological parents;
(viii) detailed medical and mental health histories of the
child, the biological parents, and their immediate relatives;
(ix) the actual date and place of birth of the adopted person;
and (x) the reason or reasons the birth parent or parents
stated for placing the child for adoption, how and why the
adoptive parent or parents were selected and who selected the
adoptive parent or parents, and whether the birth parent or
parents requested or agreed to post-adoption contact with the
child at the time of placement, and, if so, the frequency and
type of contact; and (xi) whether the child was placed in
foster care before adoption, and if so, available information
about significant developmental milestones observed or
documented that occurred while the child was placed under the
custody and guardianship of the Department. This information
may include, but is not limited to, the child's first steps,
first words, toilet training, and other notable developmental
progress. However, no information provided under this
subsection shall disclose the name or last known address of
the biological parents, grandparents, the siblings of the
biological parents, the adopted person, or any other relative
of the adopted person. Disclosure under this subsection is

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subject to applicable State or federal confidentiality laws.
On or before January 1, 2027, the Department of Children and
Family Services shall adopt any rules necessary to implement
the changes made to this subsection by this amendatory Act of
the 104th General Assembly.
(b) Any adoptee 18 years of age or over shall be given the
information in subsection (a) upon request.
(c) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release any
non-identifying information listed in (a) of this Section that
appears on the certified copy of the original birth
certificate or the Certificate of Adoption to an adopted
person, adoptive parent, or legal guardian who is a registrant
of the Illinois Adoption Registry.
(d) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release the
actual date and place of birth of an adopted person who is 21
years of age or over to the birth parent if the birth parent is
a registrant of the Illinois Adoption Registry and has
completed a Medical Information Exchange Authorization.
(e) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release
information regarding the date the adoption was finalized and
the county in which the adoption was finalized to a certified
confidential intermediary upon submission of a court order.
(f) In cases where the Illinois Adoption Registry
possesses information indicating that an adopted person who is
21 years of age or over was adopted in a state other than
Illinois or a country other than the United States, the

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Illinois Adoption Registry shall release the name of the state
or country where the adoption was finalized and, if available,
the agency involved in the adoption to a registrant of the
Illinois Adoption Registry, provided the registrant is not the
subject of a Denial of Information Exchange and the registrant
has completed a Medical Information Exchange Authorization.
(g) Any of the above available information for any
adoption proceedings completed before the effective date of
this Act shall be supplied to the adoptive parents or an
adoptee 18 years of age or over upon request.
(h) The agency, Department of Children and Family
Services, Court Supportive Services, Juvenile Division of the
Circuit Court, the Probation Officers of the Circuit Court and
any other governmental bodies having any of the above
information shall retain the file until the adoptee would have
reached the age of 99 years.
(Source: P.A. 99-832, eff. 1-1-17.)".