West Virginia House Bill 2313 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-11 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to revise current law relating to access to adoption records by adoptees; authorizing adult adoptees access to certain records; requiring birth parents to provide certain health information at time of adoption; allowing birth parents to designate a contact; directing the Department of Health and Human Resources to administer collection of records, require additional information and charge a reasonable fee for records copies; providing a procedure for collection and disseminate information; and authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules needed to administer the program.

Relating to adoption records

Del. Isaac Sponaugle [D]

Del. Tim Miley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-11	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2019-01-11	House	Introduced in House
2019-01-11	House	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2019-01-11	House	Filed for introduction

SB300 (Similar To) 2019-02-19 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
48	22	803	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2313&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2313%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2313