| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jan 21, 2020 | recommit, enacting clause stricken |
| Jan 08, 2020 | referred to children and families |
| Jan 30, 2019 | print number 2492a |
| Jan 30, 2019 | amend and recommit to children and families |
| Jan 25, 2019 | referred to children and families |
senate Bill S2492A
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Alessandra Biaggi
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
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S2492 - Details
S2492 - Summary
Grants access to a certified copy of the birth certificate of an adopted person without requiring judicial review; requires such birth certificate to state that the certificate is a certified copy of a sealed record and is not valid for identification with the adoption facts recited.
S2492 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2492 SPONSOR: BIAGGI TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the domestic relations law and the public health law, in relation to access to birth records by adoptees PURPOSE: This bill would allow an adopted person who is at least eighteen years of age to obtain a certified copy of their original birth certificate with a notation that the document is a certified copy of a sealed record, not valid for identification, with a recitation of the facts of adoption, or of each adoption if adopted more than once. The document required to be provided to the adoptee is certified, it clearly estab- lishes that the person whose birth is recorded was adopted and the docu- ment is NOT valid as ID. It links the pre-and post adoption identities allowing access to birth right privileges such as society membership, dual passport and religious affiliation. For people adopted after infancy the connection between pre and post adoption identities is important to access their medical and educational records along with
S2492 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2492
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 25, 2019
___________
Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the public health law, in
relation to access to birth records by adoptees
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby states its
intention to ensure equal access to vital records and end decades of
discrimination against adoption and adopted persons. The legislature
finds that an adopted person should have access to his or her original
birth record in the same manner as a non-adopted person. The provisions
of this act establish an absolute right under the law for adopted
persons to access their birth certificates while referencing the fact of
their adoption.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 114 of the domestic relations law, as
amended by chapter 559 of the laws of 1992 and as designated by chapter
601 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
2. (A) No person, including the attorney for the adoptive parents
shall disclose the surname of the child directly or indirectly to the
adoptive parents except upon order of the court. No person shall be
allowed access to such sealed records and order and any index thereof
except upon an order of a judge or surrogate of the court in which the
order was made or of a justice of the supreme court. No order for
disclosure or access and inspection shall be granted except on good
cause shown and on due notice to the adoptive parents and to such addi-
tional persons as the court may direct. Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to require the state commissioner of health or his designee to
secure a court order authorizing disclosure of information contained in
adoption or birth records requested pursuant to the authority of section
forty-one hundred thirty-eight-c or section forty-one hundred thirty-
eight-d of the public health law; upon the receipt of such request for
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
S2492A (ACTIVE) - Details
S2492A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Grants access to a certified copy of the birth certificate of an adopted person without requiring judicial review; requires such birth certificate to state that the certificate is a certified copy of a sealed record and is not valid for identification with the adoption facts recited.
S2492A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2492A SPONSOR: BIAGGI TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the domestic relations law and the public health law, in relation to access to birth records by adoptees PURPOSE: This bill would allow an adopted person who is at least eighteen years of age to obtain a certified copy of their original birth certificate with a notation that the document is a certified copy of a sealed record, not valid for identification, with a recitation of the facts of adoption, or of each adoption if adopted more than once. The document required to be provided to the adoptee is certified, it clearly estab- lishes that the person whose birth is recorded was adopted and the docu- ment is NOT valid as ID. It links the pre-and post adoption identities allowing access to birth right privileges such as society membership, dual passport and religious affiliation. For people adopted after infancy the connection between pre and post adoption identities is important to access their medical and educational records along with
S2492A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2492--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 25, 2019
___________
Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the public health law, in
relation to access to birth records by adoptees
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby states its
intention to ensure equal access to vital records and end decades of
discrimination against adoption and adopted persons. The legislature
finds that an adopted person should have access to his or her original
birth record in the same manner as a non-adopted person. The provisions
of this act establish an absolute right under the law for adopted
persons to access their birth certificates while referencing the fact of
their adoption.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 114 of the domestic relations law, as
amended by chapter 559 of the laws of 1992 and as designated by chapter
601 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
2. (A) No person, including the attorney for the adoptive parents
shall disclose the surname of the child directly or indirectly to the
adoptive parents except upon order of the court. No person shall be
allowed access to such sealed records and order and any index thereof
except upon an order of a judge or surrogate of the court in which the
order was made or of a justice of the supreme court. No order for
disclosure or access and inspection shall be granted except on good
cause shown and on due notice to the adoptive parents and to such addi-
tional persons as the court may direct. Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to require the state commissioner of health or his OR HER
designee to secure a court order authorizing disclosure of information
contained in adoption or birth records requested pursuant to the author-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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