Report Title:

Adoption; Birth Certificate

Description:

Allows an adoptive child who is not a minor to request a new birth certificate with the names of both adoptive and natural parents.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	968
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to adoption.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 578-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "(a)  A certified copy of the decree of adoption, or a certified abstract thereof on a form approved by the department of health, after the decree has become effective, shall be sent to the department.  The department shall cause to be made a new record of the birth in the name of the individual, as fixed or changed by the decree, with the names of the adoptive parents and, upon request of both adoptive parents, or the sole adoptive parent if there is only one, that the name or names of either or both of the natural parents appear on the certificate, with the name of a natural parent who consents to be named on the certificate[.]; provided that an adoptive child who is not a minor may request a new record of the birth with the name or names of the adoptive parents and the name or names of the natural parents on the certificate."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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