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
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.
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
)
- 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