|
|
|
|
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1457
Introduced 2/23/2005, by Sen. Dave Sullivan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
|
|
|
|
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Adoption Registry and the Medical Information Exchange.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A BILL FOR
|
|
|
|
|
SB1457 |
|
LRB094 06842 LCB 36948 b |
|
|
| 1 |
| AN ACT concerning civil law.
|
| 2 |
| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
|
| 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
|
| 4 |
| Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing Section |
| 5 |
| 18.05 as follows:
|
| 6 |
| (750 ILCS 50/18.05)
|
| 7 |
| Sec. 18.05. The Illinois Adoption Registry and
and Medical |
| 8 |
| Information
Exchange.
|
| 9 |
| (a) General function. Subject to appropriation, the |
| 10 |
| Department of Public
Health shall redefine the function of the |
| 11 |
| Illinois Adoption Registry and
create the Medical Information |
| 12 |
| Exchange in the manner outlined in subsections
(b) and (c) for |
| 13 |
| the purpose of facilitating the voluntary exchange of
medical |
| 14 |
| information between mutually consenting birth parents or birth
|
| 15 |
| siblings
and mutually consenting adoptive parents or legal |
| 16 |
| guardians of
adopted or surrendered persons under the age of 21 |
| 17 |
| or adopted or
surrendered persons 21 years of age or over.
The |
| 18 |
| Department shall establish rules for the confidential |
| 19 |
| operation of the
Illinois Adoption
Registry. Beginning January |
| 20 |
| 1, 2000, the Department shall conduct a public
information |
| 21 |
| campaign through public service announcements
and other forms |
| 22 |
| of media coverage and, for a minimum of 4 years, through
|
| 23 |
| notices enclosed with driver's
license renewal applications, |
| 24 |
| shall inform
adopted and surrendered persons born, |
| 25 |
| surrendered, or adopted in Illinois and
their adoptive parents, |
| 26 |
| legal guardians, birth parents and birth siblings of
the |
| 27 |
| Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical Information Exchange. |
| 28 |
| The
Department shall notify all parties who registered with the |
| 29 |
| Illinois Adoption
Registry prior to January 1, 2000 of the |
| 30 |
| provisions of this amendatory Act of
1999. The Illinois
|
| 31 |
| Adoption
Registry shall also
maintain an informational |
| 32 |
| Internet site where interested parties may access
information |
|
|
|
SB1457 |
- 2 - |
LRB094 06842 LCB 36948 b |
|
|
| 1 |
| about the Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical Information
|
| 2 |
| Exchange and download all necessary application forms. The |
| 3 |
| Illinois Adoption
Registry
shall maintain statistical records |
| 4 |
| regarding Registry participation and publish
and circulate to |
| 5 |
| the public
informational material
about the function and |
| 6 |
| operation of the Registry.
|
| 7 |
| (b) Establishment of the Adoption/Surrender Records File. |
| 8 |
| When a person has
voluntarily registered with
the Illinois |
| 9 |
| Adoption Registry and completed an Illinois Adoption Registry
|
| 10 |
| Application or a Registration Identification Form, the |
| 11 |
| Registry shall establish
a
new Adoption/Surrender Records |
| 12 |
| File. Such file may concern
an adoption that was finalized by a |
| 13 |
| court action in the State of Illinois, an
adoption of a person |
| 14 |
| born in Illinois finalized
by a court action in a state other |
| 15 |
| than Illinois or in a foreign country, or a
surrender taken in |
| 16 |
| the State of Illinois. Such file may be established for
|
| 17 |
| adoptions or surrenders finalized prior to as well as after the |
| 18 |
| effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1999. A file may be |
| 19 |
| created in
any manner to preserve documents including but not |
| 20 |
| limited to microfilm,
optical imaging, or electronic |
| 21 |
| documents.
|
| 22 |
| (c) Contents of the Adoption/Surrender Records File. An |
| 23 |
| established
Adoption/Surrender
Records File shall be limited |
| 24 |
| to the following items, to the extent that they
are
available:
|
| 25 |
| (1) The General Information Section and Medical |
| 26 |
| Information Exchange
Questionnaire of any Illinois |
| 27 |
| Adoption Registry Application or a Registration
|
| 28 |
| Identification
Form which
has been voluntarily completed |
| 29 |
| by the adopted or surrendered person or his or
her adoptive
|
| 30 |
| parents, legal guardians, birth parents, or birth |
| 31 |
| siblings.
|
| 32 |
| (2) Any photographs
voluntarily provided
by any |
| 33 |
| registrant for the
adopted or surrendered person or his or |
| 34 |
| her adoptive parents, legal guardians,
birth parents, or |
| 35 |
| birth siblings at the
time of registration or any time |
| 36 |
| thereafter.
All such photographs shall be submitted in an |
|
|
|
SB1457 |
- 3 - |
LRB094 06842 LCB 36948 b |
|
|
| 1 |
| unsealed
envelope no larger than 8 1/2" x 11", and shall |
| 2 |
| not include identifying
information pertaining to any |
| 3 |
| person other than the registrant
who submitted them.
Any |
| 4 |
| such identifying information shall be redacted by the |
| 5 |
| Department or the
information shall be returned for removal |
| 6 |
| of identifying information.
|
| 7 |
| (3) Any Information Exchange Authorization or Denial |
| 8 |
| of Information
Exchange
which has been filed by a |
| 9 |
| registrant.
|
| 10 |
| (4) For all adoptions finalized after January 1, 2000, |
| 11 |
| copies of the
original certificate of live birth and the |
| 12 |
| certificate
of adoption.
|
| 13 |
| (5) Any updated address submitted by any registered |
| 14 |
| party about himself or
herself.
|
| 15 |
| (6) Any proof of death which has been submitted by an |
| 16 |
| adopted or
surrendered person,
adoptive parent,
legal |
| 17 |
| guardian,
birth parent, or birth sibling.
|
| 18 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-417, eff. 1-1-00.)
|