S248 - Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted. (SL 2025-9)

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Session Year 2025

Overview: S.L. 2025-9 (Senate Bill 248) requires the State Registrar to provide county registrars of deeds with electronic access to adoptee birth certificates.  The county registrars must provide a certified copy of an adoptee birth certificate to the adoptee, the adoptee's children, the adoptive parents, the adoptee's spouse, and the adoptee's siblings upon request.  If a requested adoptee birth certificate has not been digitized, the county registrar of deeds may request the State Registrar to digitize the certificate, and the State Registrar must fulfill the request within two business days.

This act becomes effective January 1, 2026.