(750 ILCS 50/18.1a)

Sec. 18.1a. Registry matches.

(a) The Registry shall release identifying information, as specified on the applicant's Information Exchange Authorization or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, to the following mutually consenting registered parties and provide them with any photographs or correspondence which have been placed in the Adoption/Surrender Records File and are specifically intended for the registered parties:

(i) an adult adopted or surrendered person and one of his or her birth relatives who have both filed an applicable Information Exchange Authorization or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form specifying the other consenting party with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the consenting adopted or surrendered person is biologically related to the consenting birth relative;

(ii) the adoptive parent or legal guardian of an adopted or surrendered person under the age of 21 and one of the adopted or surrendered person's birth relatives who have both filed an Information Exchange Authorization specifying the other consenting party, or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the child of the consenting adoptive parent or legal guardian is biologically related to the consenting birth relative; and

(iii) the adoptive parent, adult child, adult grandchild, birth grandparent, or surviving spouse of a deceased adopted or surrendered person, and one of the adopted or surrendered person's birth relatives who have both filed an applicable Information Exchange Authorization specifying the other consenting party or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the child of the consenting adoptive parent, the parent of the consenting adult child or the deceased wife or husband of the consenting surviving spouse of the adopted or surrendered person was biologically related to the consenting birth relative.

(b) If a registrant is the subject of a Denial of Information Exchange filed by another registered party or is an adopted or surrendered person, or the surviving relative of a deceased adopted or surrendered person, and a birth parent of the adopted or surrendered person completed a Birth Parent Preference Form and selected Option E, the Registry shall not release identifying information to either registrant or, if applicable, to an adopted person who has requested a copy of his or her original birth certificate, with the exception of non-certified copies of the original birth certificate released under Section 18.1b(e), and as to a birth parent who has prohibited release of identifying information on the original birth certificate to the adult adopted or surrendered person, upon the death of said birth parent.

(c) If a registrant has completed a Medical Information Exchange Questionnaire and has consented to its disclosure, that Questionnaire shall be released to any registered party who has indicated their desire to receive such information on his or her Illinois Adoption Registry Application, if information available to the Registry confirms that the consenting parties are biologically related, that the consenting birth relative and the child of the consenting adoptive parents or legal guardians are birth relatives, or that the consenting birth relative and the deceased wife or husband of the consenting surviving spouse are birth relatives.

(Source: P.A. 98-704, eff. 1-1-15; 99-345, eff. 1-1-16.)