Bill > HB291

This bill grants the Commissioner of Social Services the authority to store, preserve, and certify adoption files, including orders and reports from the circuit court and adoption files from child-placing agencies or local boards. The bill allows the Commissioner to duplicate adoption files using various methods, such as microfilming or digital reproduction, and to certify these copies as true records. The bill also amends existing laws related to the disclosure of identifying information from adoption files to adopted persons, birth parents, and adoptive parents, and it contains an emergency clause.

Health and Social Services, Justice

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