"AN ACT PROVIDING CERTAIN ADULT ADOPTED PERSONS WITH ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN THEIR ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES."

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General Assembly		*Amendment*
*February Session, 2006*		LCO No. 4959

	SB0000404959SRO
Offered by:
SEN. DELUCA, 32^nd Dist. SEN. MCKINNEY, 28^th Dist.

To: Subst. Senate Bill No. 4

File No. 631

Cal. No. 329

"AN ACT PROVIDING CERTAIN ADULT ADOPTED PERSONS WITH ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN THEIR ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES. "

Change the effective date of sections 1 to 6, inclusive, to "January 1, 2007"

Strike lines 23 to 34, inclusive, in their entirety and substitute the following in lieu thereof:

"(c) Regardless of the date parental rights were terminated, any person who was born on or after January 1, 2007, whose adoption was finalized on or after January 1, 2007, and for whom a new certificate of birth was established on or after January 1, 2007, pursuant to section 7-53, as amended by this act, because of the adoption, or if such person is deceased, an authorized applicant as defined in subparagraph (D) of subdivision (3) of section 45a-743, may apply for and receive a copy of (1) the person's sealed original birth certificate or record pursuant to section 7-51, as amended by this act, and (2) any contact preference form attached to the sealed original birth certificate or record pursuant to section 7-51, as amended by this act. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit such person's or authorized applicant's access to information pursuant to this part."

Strike lines 101 to 111, inclusive, in their entirety and substitute the following in lieu thereof:

"(2) The department shall provide access to and issuance of a copy of a sealed original birth record or certificate marked with the same notation required for such records under subsection (c) of section 7-53, as amended by this act, to any person twenty-one years of age or older who was born on or after January 1, 2007, whose adoption was finalized on or after January 1, 2007, and for whom a new certificate of birth was established on or after January 1, 2007, pursuant to section 7-53, as amended by this act, because of the adoption, or if the person is deceased, an authorized applicant as defined in subparagraph (D) of subdivision (3) of section 45a-743, provided the department is satisfied as to the identity of the person or authorized applicant requesting the record or certificate."