Indiana Senate Bill 91 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: Passed on March 4 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-04 - Public Law 3
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Release of identifying adoption information. Repeals, effective July 1, 2018, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a consent to release the information is on file. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2018, identifying adoption information may be released unless a nonrelease form is on file, regardless of when the adoption was filed. (Under current law, this provision applies only to adoptions filed after December 31, 1993.) Replaces a nonrelease form with a contact preference form. Provides that a nonrelease form submitted before July 1, 2018, remains in effect unless

Release of identifying adoption information. Repeals, effective July 1, 2018, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a consent to release the information is on file. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2018, identifying adoption information may be released unless a nonrelease form is on file, regardless of when the adoption was filed. (Under current law, this provision applies only to adoptions filed after December 31, 1993.) Replaces a nonrelease form with a contact preference form. Provides that a nonrelease form submitted before July 1, 2018, remains in effect unless

Sen. Brent Steele [R]	Sen. Michael Delph [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. Michael Young [R]	Sen. Greg Taylor [D]	Sen. Susan Glick [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]
Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]	Rep. Doug Gutwein [R]
Rep. Wendy McNamara [R]	Rep. Patrick Bauer [D]

2016-02-22 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 72 N: 24 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2016-02-15 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-21 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 43 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2016-01-13 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-04	Senate	Public Law 3
2016-03-04	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2016-02-25	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2016-02-25	House	Signed by the Speaker
2016-02-24	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2016-02-23	House	Returned to the Senate without amendments
2016-02-22	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 200: yeas 72, nays 24
2016-02-18	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2016-02-15	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2016-02-08	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2016-01-22	Senate	Referred to the House
2016-01-21	Senate	Senator Buck added as coauthor
2016-01-21	Senate	Senators Glick, Holdman, Tomes added as coauthors
2016-01-21	Senate	Senator Taylor added as coauthor
2016-01-21	Senate	Senator Young, M. added as coauthor
2016-01-21	Senate	Representatives Gutwein, McNamara, Bauer added as cosponsors
2016-01-21	Senate	Senator Head added as third author
2016-01-21	Senate	Representative Steuerwald added as sponsor
2016-01-21	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 33: yeas 43, nays 5
2016-01-19	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2016-01-19	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2016-01-14	Senate	Senator Delph added as second author
2016-01-14	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2016-01-05	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2016-01-05	Senate	Authored by Senator Steele

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/senate/91/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/3/c/d/83cd0b38/SB0091.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/4/5/8/7458fabf/SB0091.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/6/f/a/86fa8a47/SB0091.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/7/7/857707e6/SB0091.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/4/0/a/640add9b/SB0091.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/1/a/0/81a0920a/SB0091.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/d/c/8/1dc81e34/SB0091.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/b/4/1/4b417c2b/SB0091.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/d/0/e/2d0ebf84/SB0091.33.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/1/5/7/2157ddf7/SB0091.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/9/f/7/a9f734e4/SB0091.200.pdf