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91_SB0399
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1 AN ACT to amend the Adoption Act by changing Section
2 18.1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Adoption Act is amended by changing
6 Section 18.1 as follows:
7 (750 ILCS 50/18.1) (from Ch. 40, par. 1522.1)
8 Sec. 18.1. Adoption Registry.
9 (a) The Department of Public Health shall establish a
10 Registry for the purpose of providing identifying information
11 to mutually consenting children surrendered for adoption or
12 adoptees and biological parents and to mutually consenting
13 biological siblings. Identifying information for the purpose
14 of this Act shall mean only the name and last known address
15 of the consenting person or persons.
16 (b) At any time after a child is surrendered for
17 adoption, or at any time during the adoption proceedings or
18 at any time thereafter, either biological parent or both of
19 them may file with the Registry a Biological Parent
20 Registration Identification Form and an Information Exchange
21 Authorization.
22 (c) Any adoptee, or any child who has been surrendered
23 for adoption but not adopted ("surrendered child"), may file
24 with the Registry an Adoptee Registration Identification Form
25 or a Surrendered Child Registration Identification Form and
26 an Information Exchange Authorization if such adoptee or
27 surrendered child is 21 years of age or over; or, if over 18
28 years of age and under 21 years of age, if there is attached
29 to the Information Exchange Authorization (1) written consent
30 of both adoptive parents, or (2) written consent of a single
31 adoptive parent with a certified copy of the Judgment of
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1 Adoption, or (3) proof of the death of one adoptive parent
2 and written consent of the surviving adoptive parent, or (4)
3 written consent of the guardian of the adoptee or surrendered
4 child with a certified copy of the Order of Guardianship.
5 (d) The Department of Public Health shall supply to the
6 adoptee or surrendered child and to the biological parents
7 identifying information only if both the adoptee or
8 surrendered child and the biological parents have filed with
9 the Registry an Information Exchange Authorization and the
10 information at the Registry indicates that the consenting
11 adoptee or surrendered child is the child of the consenting
12 biological parents.
13 The Department of Public Health shall supply to adoptees
14 or surrendered children who are biological siblings
15 identifying information only if both siblings have filed with
16 the Registry an Information Exchange Authorization and the
17 information at the Registry indicates that the consenting
18 siblings have one or both biological parents in common.
19 Identifying information shall be supplied to consenting
20 biological siblings if any such sibling is 21 years of age or
21 over; or, if over 18 years of age and under 21 years of age,
22 if there is attached to the Information Exchange
23 Authorization (1) written consent of both adoptive parents,
24 or (2) written consent of a single adoptive parent with a
25 certified copy of the Judgment of Adoption, or (3) proof of
26 the death of one adoptive parent and written consent of the
27 surviving adoptive parent, or (4) written consent of the
28 guardian of the adoptee or surrendered child with a certified
29 copy of the Order of Guardianship.
30 (e) A biological parent, adoptee or surrendered child
31 may notify the Registry of his desire not to have his
32 identity revealed or may revoke any previously filed
33 Information Exchange Authorization by completing and filing
34 with the Registry a Registry Identification Form along with a
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1 Denial of Information Exchange. Any adoptee, surrendered
2 child or biological parent may revoke a Denial of Information
3 Exchange by filing an Information Exchange Authorization.
4 The Department of Public Health shall act in accordance with
5 the most recently filed Authorization.
6 (f) Identifying information ascertained from the
7 Registry shall be confidential and may be disclosed only (1)
8 upon a Court Order, which order shall name the person or
9 persons entitled to the information, or (2) to the adoptee,
10 surrendered child, adopted or surrendered sibling, or
11 biological parent if both the adoptee, or surrendered child,
12 and his or her biological parent, or both adopted or
13 surrendered siblings, have filed with the Registry an
14 Information Exchange Authorization, or (3) as authorized
15 under subsection (h) of Section 18.3 of this Act. Any person
16 who willfully provides unauthorized disclosure of any
17 information filed with the Registry shall be guilty of a
18 Class A misdemeanor and shall be liable for damages.
19 (Source: P.A. 86-1451.)