HB 2301 Summary

• Requires entities placing children for adoption to compile and provide prospective adoptive parents with detailed written nonidentifying health and genetic history information about birth parents, unless birth parents are deceased or information is unavailable.

• Records containing health and genetic history must be retained for 99 years by the division, agency, or person placing the child, or transferred to another agency if the original entity ceases operations.

• Allows supplemental health and genetic information from birth family members, adoptive family members, or adult adoptees to be added to adoption records and requires notification of such additions to the adoptee (if 18+) or adoptive parents (if adoptee is under 18).

• Restricts access to health and genetic history information to adoptive parents, adoptees age 18+, deceased adoptees' spouses/descendants, and birth parents or their biological children.

• Requires the person requesting adoption records to pay actual and reasonable costs associated with providing the information.