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2001 SESSION

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SB 1145 Adoption registry.

Introduced by: Linda T. (Toddy) Puller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Adoption registry. Establishes within the State Department of Social Services a voluntary adoption registry to facilitate voluntary contact between mutually consenting adopted adults and their adult birth relatives. An adult adoptee or an adult birth relative of an adoptee who requests disclosure of identifying information concerning the other would receive this information if the other has filed a form consenting to his disclosure. An authorization for disclosure may be revoked at any time. The bill further provides that the act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating its purposes is included in the 2001 Appropriations Act.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/01  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 012303518  pdf | impact statement
• 01/26/01  Senate: Printed as engrossed 012303518-E  pdf | impact statement

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HISTORY

• 01/10/01  Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 012303518
• 01/10/01  Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
• 01/24/01  Senate: Reported from Finance with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/01  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/01  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/01  Senate: Read second time
• 01/26/01  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 01/26/01  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
• 01/26/01  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 01/26/01  Senate: Printed as engrossed 012303518-E
• 01/29/01  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/01  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/01  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/02/01  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/02/01  House: Read first time
• 02/02/01  House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
• 02/08/01  House: Reported from H. W. I. (13-Y 9-N)
• 02/08/01  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/15/01  House: Tabled in Appropriations (27-Y 1-N)