Indiana Senate Bill 352 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 3 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-02 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Identifying information for adoptions. Repeals, effective July 1, 2016, 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, 2016, identifying adoption information may be released unless a nonrelease is on file, regardless of when the adoption was filed. (Under current law, this provision applies only to adoptions filed after December 31, 1993.)

Identifying information for adoptions. Repeals, effective July 1, 2016, 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, 2016, identifying adoption information may be released unless a nonrelease is on file, regardless of when the adoption was filed. (Under current law, this provision applies only to adoptions filed after December 31, 1993.)

Sen. Brent Steele [R]	Sen. Michael Delph [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]	Rep. Judson McMillin [R]

2015-01-22 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 46 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-01-14 - Senate - Senate Committee on Judiciary - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-02	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2015-02-03	Senate	Referred to the House
2015-01-22	Senate	Representative McMillin added as cosponsor
2015-01-22	Senate	Senator Buck added as third author
2015-01-22	Senate	Representative Steuerwald added as sponsor
2015-01-22	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 46, nays 3
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2015-01-20	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-01-15	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2015-01-08	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2015-01-08	Senate	Authored by Senators Steele and Delph

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/352/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/7/3/d/f73d5b50/SB0352.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/c/d/f/dcdfdf23/SB0352.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/6/6/0/a6608aeb/SB0352.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/e/3/3/de335c86/SB0352.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/d/0/7/5d077fab/SB0352.28.pdf