A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the scope of the law that allows an agency acting as a confidential intermediary to obtain a copy of a death certificate of a biological parent or an adult adoptee to include a lineal ascendant  of a biological parent when it is determined the biological parent, adult adoptee, or the lineal ascendant of the biological parent is deceased.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 48‑9‑104(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	If an agency providing confidential intermediary services determines that the person who is the subject of the search is deceased, the agency may obtain a copy of the death certificate pursuant to G.S. 130A-93 and deliver it to the person who requested the services. If the agency further determines that a lineal ascendant of the deceased person who is the subject of the search is deceased, the agency may also obtain a copy of the death certificate of the deceased lineal ascendant and deliver it to the person who requested the services."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.