ACCESS RHODE ISLAND

A grassroots effort dedicated to passing legislation allowing adult adoptees born in Rhode Island access to their original birth certificate (OBC)

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"ACCESS RHODE ISLAND " is dedicated to passing legislation allowing adult adoptees born in RI to regain the right of access to their original birth certificates. In RI the OBC is sealed after the adoption is legally finalized and an "amended" or adoptive certificate is substituted. Since 1944 the adult adoptee has been denied access to the OBC by law. Members of ACCESS RI believe that RI adoptees are being denied the human right that all other people who were born in RI have -- to go to the vital records office and get a copy of their original birth certificate. It is their history, it is their origin and they have the human right to that information.

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Grassroots Campaign to Pass Legislation in Rhode Island Allowing Adult Adoptees Access to Their Original Birth Certificates

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

NOTICE OF MEETING

DATE: Tuesday, April 5, 2011

TIME: Rise of the House

PLACE: House Lounge - State Hosue

SCHEDULED FOR HEARING AND/OR CONSIDERATION

House Bill No. 5453
BY Carnevale, Mattiello, Hearn, Ucci, Marcello
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS {LC1155} (would permit adult adoptees to obtain a non-certified copy of their original, unaltered birth certificate)
02/16/11 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
04/05/11 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration