Indiana House Bill 1255 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 11 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Access to identifying information. Requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession and the federal limited access death master file if an eligible individual submits a request for the release of identifying information of a birth parent or adoptee. (Current law requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession.) Provides, with exceptions under current law, that a consent of an adoptee or birth parent is not required if the individual requesting the identifying information submits records from the death master file indicating that the adoptee or birth parent is deceased.

Access to identifying information. Requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession and the federal limited access death master file if an eligible individual submits a request for the release of identifying information of a birth parent or adoptee. (Current law requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession.) Provides, with exceptions under current law, that a consent of an adoptee or birth parent is not required if the individual requesting the identifying information submits records from the death master file indicating that the adoptee or birth parent is deceased.

Rep. Vanessa Summers [D]

Rep. Edward Clere [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-11	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2016-01-11	House	Coauthored by Representative Clere
2016-01-11	House	Authored by Representative Summers

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/house/1255/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/2/4/0/324054a7/HB1255.01.INTR.pdf