filed them with the Department of Health.
(C) I do not wish to be contacted. I have
completed the contact preference form and the medical
history form and have filed them with the Department
of Health.
(D) I do not wish to be contacted except in
cases where such contact is for the purpose of
addressing a life-threatening medical condition.
(ii) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
limit additional contact information from the birth
parents.
(3) A valid redaction form under paragraph (1) shall
include a medical history form, which the Department of
Health shall provide to each birth parent no later than at
the time of adoption. No identifying information shall be
mandated to be listed, and either birth parent may send
subsequent medical history forms as warranted.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an adoptee, a
descendant of an adoptee or the adopting parents may request
a copy of the medical history at any time.
(c) Administration.--
(1) The Commonwealth shall make a reasonable and
appropriate effort to engage and inform the public about the
availability of the birth parent redaction form and its
accompanying process. The Department of Health shall make
available the forms under subsection (b) to the appropriate
State agencies and publicly accessible Internet websites no
later than 30 days after the effective date of this
paragraph. This paragraph shall expire 210 days after the
effective date of this subsection.
(2) Upon receiving a request for a noncertified copy of
an original birth record from an adoptee or, if the adoptee
is deceased, a descendant of the adoptee, in the absence of a
valid redaction form under subsection (b)(1), the Department
of Health shall make a reasonable effort to contact the
listed birth parents in a manner respecting their privacy in
order to inform them of the redaction form process. If no
valid redaction form is received by the Department of Health
within 90 days of initiating search, a noncertified copy of
original birth record shall be released.
(d) Contact of birth parents.--An adoptee who receives a
noncertified copy of original birth record with redacted
information may request that the Department of Health contact a
birth parent every five years to determine whether or not the
birth parent will:
(1) permit the birth parent's name to be included on the
noncertified copy of original birth record; or
(2) provide an updated medical history form.
(e) Noncertified copy of an original birth record.--If
provided with a copy of a birth parent death certificate, the
Department of Health shall provide the adoptee, or if adoptee is
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