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2021 Utah Code
Title 78B - Judicial Code
Chapter 6 - Particular Proceedings
Part 1 - Utah Adoption Act
Section 143 - Nonidentifying health history of adoptee filed with office -- Limited availability.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 78B-6-143 (2021)
Effective 5/9/2017
78B-6-143. Nonidentifying health history of adoptee filed with office -- Limited availability.
Amended by Chapter 417, 2017 General Session
78B-6-143. Nonidentifying health history of adoptee filed with office -- Limited availability.
- (1)
- (a) Upon finalization of an adoption in this state, the person who proceeded on behalf of the petitioner for adoption, or a child-placing agency if an agency is involved in the adoption, shall file a report with the office, in the form established by the office.
- (b) The report described in Subsection (1)(a) shall include a detailed health history, and a genetic and social history of the adoptee.
- (2) The report described in Subsection (1)(a) may not contain identifying information or any information that identifies the adoptee's birth parents or members of their families.
- (3) When the report described in Subsection (1)(a) is filed, a duplicate report shall be provided to the adoptive parents.
- (4) The report described in Subsection (1)(a) shall only be available upon request, and upon presentation of positive identification, to the following persons:
- (a) the adoptive parents;
- (b) in the event of the death of the adoptive parents, the adoptee's legal guardian;
- (c) the adoptee;
- (d) in the event of the death of the adoptee, the adoptee's spouse, if the spouse is the parent or guardian of the adoptee's child;
- (e) the adoptee's child or descendant;
- (f) the adoptee's birth parent; and
- (g) the adoptee's adult sibling.
- (5) No identifying information or information that identifies a birth parent or the birth parent's family may be disclosed under this section.
- (6) The actual cost of providing information under this section shall be paid by the person requesting the information.
- (7) A child-placing agency may provide a copy of the report described in Subsection (1)(a) and information in the child-placing agency's files, except identifying information, to an adult adoptee, a birth parent, or an adoptive parent.
- (8) Notwithstanding Subsection (7), identifying information may be released to the extent that the individual who is the subject of the information provides written authorization of the information's release.
Amended by Chapter 417, 2017 General Session
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