Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0834

E Modifying certain putative fathers adoption registry provisions; providing for
the timely filing of registrations; modifying the classification of registry
data, granting attorneys representing the birth mother or the adoptive parents
and with signed affidavits access to data in the registry; requiring notice to
the putative father of the jurisdiction of the filing of the adoption petition,
requiring filing of the intent to claim parental rights form with the court
administrator in the county of adoption petition filing, requiring the state
court administrator to develop the notice form; authorizing foster parents to
enter into communication or contact agreements, expanding the definition of
birth relative to relationships by adoption for agreement purposes and modifying
certain agreement requirements, requiring birth parent approval of agreements
between adoptive parents and other birth relatives or foster parents, exception;
requiring the court to mail certified copies of agreement orders to the parties
to the agreement; requiring recognition of postadoption reports of foreign
countries in intercountry adoption cases (ra, ja)