PRINTER'S NO. 1212
No. 1081 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY SATHER, KUKOVICH, NICKOL, TIGUE, BELFANTI, HESS,
DEMPSEY, CARONE, TRELLO, MILLER, HECKLER, PETTIT, FARMER,
KENNEY, STERN, HASAY, YANDRISEVITS, RAYMOND, HUTCHINSON,
CURRY, CLARK, FLICK, GERLACH AND GEIST, APRIL 19, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND YOUTH, APRIL 19, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for medical history
3 information.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2909(a) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2909. Medical history information.
9 (a) Delivery of information.--Medical history information,
10 including that information about the natural parents which may
11 be relevant to any potential hereditary or congenital medical
12 problem, whether or not that condition is in existence or
13 discoverable at the time of the adoption, shall, where
14 practicable, be delivered by the attending physician or other
15 designated person to the intermediary who shall deliver such
16 information to the adopting parents or their physician. In cases
17 where there is no intermediary, medical history information
1 shall be delivered directly to the adopting parents or their
2 physician.
3 * * *
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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