1997 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 303

File Code: Family Law
Sponsored By:
Delegates Turner, Perry, Pendergrass, Grosfeld, Mandel, Marriott, C. Mitchell, Oaks, Snodgrass, Hecht, Vallario, Proctor, Frush, Kagan, Patterson, Muse, Petzold, E. Burns, Bonsack, Bobo, Faulkner, Conroy, Montague, Cryor, Shriver, Love, M. Burns, D. Murphy, Parker, Hutchins, Genn, Menes, Pitkin, Cadden, Hubbard, Crumlin, Preis, McIntosh, O'Donnell, Bissett, Jacobs, Krysiak, Dembrow, Kirk, Nathan-Pulliam, Watson, Malone, Branch, Fulton, Mossburg, Ciliberti, T. Murphy, Frank, Finifter, Klausmeier, Hurson, Workman, Edwards, McKee, and B. Hughes
Entitled:
Adoption Contact Services and Access to Adoption Records

Synopsis:

Permitting specified individuals and biological parents to apply to the Director of the Social Services Administration to receive contact services; prohibiting specified biological parents from applying; requiring the Director to maintain a list of confidential intermediaries and to provide the list to specified individuals; requiring an adopted individual or biological parent to execute a specified agreement with an intermediary; requiring an intermediary to file the agreement with the Director; etc.

Legislative History

House Action
1/20
First Reading Judiciary
1/22
Hearing 2/4 at 1:00 p.m.
3/17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/18
Third Reading Passed (134-1)
Senate Action
3/19
First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
4/3
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored by:
Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
Delegate Jean B. Cryor, District 15
Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
Delegate Clarence M. Mitchell, IV, District 44
Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
Delegate Mathew Mossburg, District 39
Delegate Donald E. Murphy, District 12A
Delegate Timothy D. Murphy, District 47A
Delegate C. Anthony Muse, District 26
Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
Delegate Mark K. Shriver, District 15
Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
ADOPTION
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
DISCLOSURE
FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
PENALTIES
PRIVACY
RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
RULES AND REGULATIONS
SOCIAL SERVICES -see also- WELFARE
VITAL RECORDS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Family Law
( 5-3A-06 , 5-3A-05 , 5-3A-04 , 5-3A-03 , 5-3A-02 , 5-3A-0l , 5-4B-11 , 5-4B-10 , 5-4B-09 , 5-4B-08 , 5-4B-07 , 5-4B-06 , 5-4B-05 , 5-4B-04 , 5-4B-03 , 5-4B-02 , 5-4B-01 , 5-314 )
Health - General
( 4-211 , 4-211 , 4-217 , 4-217 )

Documents:

Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments:
House
Number: 831981/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 17, 1997 at: 17:01 Status: Adopted