Bill Text: MI HB4864 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Children; adoption; access to certain court and birth records; allow in certain circumstances. Amends 1939 PA 288 (MCL 710.21 - 712B.41) by adding sec. 19d to ch. XIIA. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4865'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/16/2017 [HB4864 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4864-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4864

 

 

August 16, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 288, entitled

 

"Probate code of 1939,"

 

(MCL 710.21 to 712B.41) by adding section 19d to chapter XIIA.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

                             CHAPTER XIIA

 

     Sec. 19d. If an individual can verify, using historical

 

evidence, that the individual's parent had his or her parental

 

rights terminated as a result of the court having jurisdiction of

 

the child under section 2(b) of this chapter or that the parent

 

voluntarily terminated or relinquished his or her parental rights

 

as part of a plea agreement resulting from an investigation

 

regarding parental rights termination as a result of the court

 

having jurisdiction of the child under section 2(b) of this

 

chapter, the court shall enter an order allowing the individual

 

access to records relating to the investigation of parental rights

 

termination conducted by the department for the court and to the

 

individual's birth records. Access to records described in this

 

section shall be allowed even if the individual has been adopted if

 

the individual can verify the parent-child relationship. Historical

 

evidence includes, but is not limited to, a death certificate, a

 

birth certificate or other birth records, any other public record

 

that shows the parent-child relationship between the individual

 

seeking the records and the parent whose parental rights were

 

terminated, and any other evidence normally admissible under court

 

rules.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4865 (request no.

 

03002'17) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.