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

OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS

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

AMENDMENT

LCO No.: 4396

File Copy No.: 442

House Calendar No.: 395

Senate Calendar No.: 329

Agency Affected	Fund-Effect
Public Health, Dept.	GF – Delays Future Cost

Note: GF=General Fund

Municipal Impact: None

Explanation

The amendment would change the age at which an adopted person could access their original birth certificate and contact preference form from eighteen to twenty-one. This will delay the future cost and revenue impacts to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics by approximately three years (i.e., eighteen – twenty-one years from now) .

The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either House thereof for any purpose.