Bill Title: Enacts Bill of Adoptee Rights clarifying language and procedures for obtaining birth certificates and medical histories of adoptees; permits an adopted adult to access certain records when they reach the age of 18; creates a contact preference to be filed by birth parents.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-18)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-17 - enacting clause stricken [A03298 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Carmen Arroyo [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Kenneth Blankenbush [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-117	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Marc Butler [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-118	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember John Ceretto [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-145	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Clark [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Clifford Crouch [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-122	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-081	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Janet Duprey [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-115	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Steven Englebright [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-004	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Patricia Fahy [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Herman Farrell [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-071	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Fitzpatrick [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-008	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sandra Galef [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joseph Giglio [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-148	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alfred Graf [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-005	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Aileen Gunther [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-100	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Steve Katz [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-094	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Brian Kolb [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-131	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Charles Lavine [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Lifton [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-125	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Peter Lopez [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-102	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Donna Lupardo [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-123	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Magee [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-121	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Magnarelli [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-129	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Thomas McKevitt [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-017	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Miller [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Montesano [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-015	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Francisco Moya [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-039	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Oaks [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-130	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Philip Palmesano [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-132	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Amy Paulin [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-088	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-141	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Nick Perry [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Gary Pretlow [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Andrew Raia [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Philip Ramos [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-006	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jose Rivera [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Annette Robinson [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michelle Schimel [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Tedisco [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-044	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Claudia Tenney [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-101	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Fred Thiele [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-001	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Matthew Titone [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Keith Wright [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-070	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Kenneth Zebrowski [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-096	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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