Bill Summary for S 248 (2025-2026)

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Mar 6 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 248 (Public) Filed Thursday, March 6, 2025
AN ACT TO MAKE ACCESS TO NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONS ADOPTED SIMILAR TO PERSONS THAT ARE NOT ADOPTED.
Intro. by Johnson, Lazzara, Daniel.

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Expands the entities authorized to issue copies or abstracts of an adoptee's new certificate of birth reflecting adoptive parents under GS 48-9-107 to include county registers of deeds. Now requires the State Registrar to issue copies of new adoptee birth certificates to registers of deeds located in the county of the adoptee's birth to replace the adoptee's original birth certificate (currently, Registrar is prohibited from issuing copies of an adoptee birth certificate to register of deeds). Clarifies that the State Registrar may issue copies of adoptee birth certificates upon request.  Applies to new birth certificates of persons adopted before, on, or after October 1, 2025.