Adoptee rights bills are being heard in numerous committees this week. Here’s what is on those agendas as well as recommended actions.
When the Biggest Opposition is a Pandemic
Remaining genuine equal rights bills are trying to get attention while a pandemic closes down capitols. Here’s a legislative update.
Tell Iowa Reps: NO on SF621
Contact members of the Iowa House of Representatives. Tell them to vote NO on SF621
Who Else Gets Your OBC?
An Iowa bill has another problem: who actually gets the OBC? Everyone in the family, including the family dog? And which “family?”
Is This the Year for Iowa? No.
Clean bills have made it out of the first legislative “funnel”—a deadline in Iowa for bills to be voted out of committee.
Legislative Update: Florida, New York and All Others
The latest in adoptee rights legislation, with sessions just getting started, in full swing, or even close to adjournment. New York and Florida are the big ones but others hang on to the promise of clean.
Iowa
Adult adoptees in Iowa do not have a right to obtain their own original birth certificates. It takes a court order to release any information.