PRINTER'S NO.  2659

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

1978

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, BELFANTI, BOBACK, CARROLL, COX, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, FLECK, FRANKEL, GINGRICH, GROVE, HARHART, MILLARD, MOUL, RAPP, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, SWANGER, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, in adoption, further providing for

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impounding of proceedings and access to records.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 2905(d)(1) of Title 23 of the

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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the subsection

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is amended by adding a paragraph to read:

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§ 2905.  Impounding of proceedings and access to records.

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(d)  Disclosure of information.--

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(1)  No disclosure of information shall be made by the

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court, an agency[, the Department of Health] or any other

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Commonwealth agency regarding the adopted person's original

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certificate of birth or regarding the documents of proof on

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which the amended certificate of birth is based or relating

 


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in any way to the natural parents unless the disclosure is

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made pursuant to the provisions of this section.

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(1.1)  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,

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the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Department of Health

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shall disclose, at the written request of an adoptee, the

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original or amended certificate of birth of the adoptee in

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accordance with the provisions of the act of June 29, 1953

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(P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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