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| 1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 18.4 as follows:
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| 6 | (750 ILCS 50/18.4) (from Ch. 40, par. 1522.4)
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| 7 | Sec. 18.4.
(a) The agency, Department of Children and | ||||||
| 8 | Family Services,
Court Supportive Services, Juvenile Division | ||||||
| 9 | of the Circuit Court, or the
Probation Officers of the Circuit | ||||||
| 10 | Court involved in the adoption
proceedings shall give in | ||||||
| 11 | writing the following non-identifying
information, if known, | ||||||
| 12 | to
the adoptive parents not later than the date of placement | ||||||
| 13 | with the
petitioning adoptive parents: (i) age of biological | ||||||
| 14 | parents; (ii) their race,
religion and ethnic background; (iii) | ||||||
| 15 | general physical appearance of
biological parents; (iv) their | ||||||
| 16 | education, occupation, hobbies, interests
and talents; (v) | ||||||
| 17 | existence of any other children born to the biological
parents; | ||||||
| 18 | (vi) information about biological grandparents; reason for
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| 19 | emigrating into the United States, if applicable, and country | ||||||
| 20 | of origin;
(vii) relationship between biological parents; | ||||||
| 21 | (viii) detailed
medical and mental health histories of the | ||||||
| 22 | child, the
biological parents, and their immediate relatives; | ||||||
| 23 | and (ix) the actual date
and place of birth of the adopted | ||||||
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| 1 | person; and (x) the reason or reasons the birth parent or | ||||||
| 2 | parents stated for placing the child for adoption, how and why | ||||||
| 3 | the adoptive parent or parents were selected and who selected | ||||||
| 4 | the adoptive parent or parents, and whether the birth parent or | ||||||
| 5 | parents requested or agreed to post-adoption contact with the | ||||||
| 6 | child at the time of placement, and, if so, the frequency and | ||||||
| 7 | type of contact. However,
no information provided under this | ||||||
| 8 | subsection shall disclose
the name or last known address of the | ||||||
| 9 | biological parents, grandparents, the
siblings of the | ||||||
| 10 | biological parents, the adopted person, or any other
relative | ||||||
| 11 | of the adopted person.
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| 12 | (b) Any adoptee 18 years of age or over shall be given the
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| 13 | information in subsection (a) upon request.
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| 14 | (c) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release any | ||||||
| 15 | non-identifying
information listed in (a) of this Section that | ||||||
| 16 | appears on the certified copy of
the original
birth certificate | ||||||
| 17 | or the Certificate of Adoption to an adopted person,
adoptive | ||||||
| 18 | parent, or legal guardian who is a registrant of the Illinois
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| 19 | Adoption Registry.
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| 20 | (d) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release the actual | ||||||
| 21 | date
and place of birth of an adopted person who is 21 years of | ||||||
| 22 | age or over
to the birth
parent if the birth parent is a | ||||||
| 23 | registrant of the Illinois Adoption
Registry and has completed | ||||||
| 24 | a Medical Information Exchange
Authorization.
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| 25 | (e) The Illinois Adoption Registry shall release | ||||||
| 26 | information
regarding the date the adoption was finalized and | ||||||
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| 1 | the county in which the
adoption
was finalized to a certified | ||||||
| 2 | confidential intermediary upon submission
of a court order.
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| 3 | (f) In cases where the Illinois Adoption Registry possesses
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| 4 | information indicating that an adopted person who is 21 years | ||||||
| 5 | of age or over
was
adopted in a state other than Illinois or a | ||||||
| 6 | country other than the
United States, the Illinois Adoption | ||||||
| 7 | Registry shall release the name of
the state or country where | ||||||
| 8 | the adoption was finalized and, if
available, the agency | ||||||
| 9 | involved in the adoption to a registrant of the
Illinois | ||||||
| 10 | Adoption Registry, provided the registrant is not the subject | ||||||
| 11 | of a
Denial of Information Exchange and the registrant has | ||||||
| 12 | completed a Medical
Information
Exchange Authorization.
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| 13 | (g) Any of the above available information for any adoption
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| 14 | proceedings
completed before the effective date of this Act | ||||||
| 15 | shall be supplied to the
adoptive parents or an adoptee 18 | ||||||
| 16 | years of age or over upon request.
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| 17 | (h) The agency, Department of Children and Family Services,
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| 18 | Court
Supportive Services, Juvenile Division of the Circuit | ||||||
| 19 | Court, the Probation
Officers of the Circuit Court and any | ||||||
| 20 | other governmental bodies having any
of the above information | ||||||
| 21 | shall retain the file until the adoptee would
have reached the | ||||||
| 22 | age of 99 years.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 93-189, eff. 1-1-04.)
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