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MN HF3075
Bill
Status
4/2/2025
Primary Sponsor
Athena Hollins
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AI Summary
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Allows individuals 18 or older, emancipated minors, or parents/guardians of minors to request changes to the sex indicator on Minnesota birth records, including changing, removing, or adding one if none exists
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Acceptable documentation for requests includes a medical provider's written statement, a certified court order, or a sworn statement attesting the request is made in good faith and not to defraud
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Requests submitted with acceptable documentation are presumed to be in good faith, and the commissioner must grant the request unless this presumption is overcome
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Provides an alternative court petition process through district court, which can issue orders for birth record changes regardless of where the original certificate was issued
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Upon replacement of a birth record, all previous records including the original are sealed as confidential data and cannot be disclosed except by court order
Legislative Description
Subject of a birth record allowed to change, remove, or add sex indicator on birth records.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy
4/2/2025