§ 2937. Original birth record
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 23 Pa.C.S.A. Domestic RelationsEffective: November 3, 2017
Effective: November 3, 2017
23 Pa.C.S.A. § 2937
§ 2937. Original birth record
(a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an adoptee who is at least 18 years of age and who has graduated from high school, completed a General Educational Development program or has legally withdrawn from secondary schooling or, if the adoptee is deceased, the adoptee's descendants, may apply to the Department of Health for the adoptee's noncertified copy of original birth record. Subject to subsections (b) and (c), the Department of Health shall issue a noncertified copy of original birth record within 45 days of receipt of an application if the application complies with the requirements of subsection (d).
(b) Contact preference.--The Department of Health shall develop and, upon request, make available to each birth parent named on the original birth certificate a contact preference form on which the birth parent may state a preference regarding contact by an adoptee who is the birth child of the birth parent. Upon such request, the Department of Health shall also provide the birth parent with an updated medical history form, which shall be completed and returned, together with the completed contact preference form, by the birth parent to the Department of Health. The contact preference form shall provide the birth parent with options, in substantially the following form, from which the birth parent shall select one:
(e) Application procedures.--The Department of Health shall develop policies and procedures necessary to comply with this section within 210 days of the effective date of this subsection.1
(f) Fee.--The Department of Health may charge a fee for issuing a noncertified copy of original birth record as required by this section. The fee charged shall not exceed the fee for a certified copy of an original birth record provided in section 609-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No. 175),2 known as The Administrative Code of 1929.
Credits
2010, Oct. 27, P.L. 961, No. 101, § 5, effective in 180 days [April 25, 2011]. Amended 2016, Nov. 3, P.L. 993, No. 127, § 2.
Footnotes
Subsec. (e) added by 2016, Nov. 3, P.L. 993, No. 127, § 2, imd. effective.
71 P.S. § 240.9A.
23 Pa.C.S.A. § 2937, PA ST 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 2937
Current through Act 13 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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