MS HB635

Allows adoptees age 21 or older to obtain unrestricted identifying information about their birth parents, regardless of any prior affidavits filed by birth parents prohibiting disclosure.

Permits birth parents to file supplemental identifying information (in addition to nonidentifying information) with the centralized adoption records file at any time.

Requires licensed adoption agencies to make at least two verbal contacts with located birth parents when fulfilling requests from adoptees age 21 or older, notifying them of the adoptee's right to all identifying information.

Modifies procedures for requests by adoptees under age 21, requiring agencies to obtain birth parent consent before disclosing identifying information and restricting further contacts if a birth parent refuses authorization.

Takes effect July 1, 2020.