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Senate Bill S5538

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires birth parents to provide medical information to the adoption medical information registry

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2013-S5538 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4138-c, Pub Health L

2013-S5538 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires birth parents to provide medical information to the adoption medical information registry.

2013-S5538 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S5538 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5538

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  the  adoption
  medical information registry

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 6-a of section 4138-c of the public health law,
as amended by chapter 480 of the laws of 2012 and paragraphs (d) and (e)
as amended by chapter 15 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  6-a.  (a)  There  shall  be  established  in  the registry an adoption
medical information sub-registry. Access to all identifying records  and
information   in   the   sub-registry  shall  be  subject  to  the  same
restrictions as the adoption information registry.
  (b) The department shall establish procedures FOR ALL ADOPTIONS IN THE
STATE by which a birth parent [may] SHALL provide medical information to
the sub-registry, and by which an adoptee aged eighteen years  or  older
or  the  adoptive  parents of an adoptee who has not attained the age of
eighteen years may access such medical information.
  (c) [A] FOR ALL ADOPTIONS IN THE STATE, A  birth  parent  [may]  SHALL
provide  the  adoption  medical  information sub-registry with certified
medical information. Such certified  medical  information  must  include
other information sufficient to locate the adoptee's birth record.
  (d)  Upon  receipt from the birth parent of certified medical informa-
tion and other information needed to identify the  adopted  person,  the
department  shall[,  to  the  extent  practicable, determine if] CONFIRM
WHETHER the adoptee was adopted in New York state. If  the  adoptee  was
adopted  in  New York state, the department shall register such informa-
tion and determine if the adoptee or adoptive parent of the  adoptee  is
registered.  Upon  such  determination, the department shall release the
non-identifying medical information only to an  adoptee,  aged  eighteen

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11149-01-3

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