GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE DRH80189-LU-92  (03/23)

Short Title:        Expand Access/Death Certificate/Adult Adoptee.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative LaRoque.
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to expand the scope of the law that allows an agency acting as a confidential intermediary to obtain a copy of a death certificate of a biological parent or an adult adoptee to include a lineal ascendant  of a biological parent when it is determined the biological parent, adult adoptee, or the lineal ascendant of the biological parent is deceased.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 48-9-104(d) reads as rewritten:

"(d)      If an agency providing confidential intermediary services determines that the person who is the subject of the search is deceased, deceased and upon further search determines that a lineal ascendant of the person who is the subject of the search is also deceased, the agency may obtain a copy of the death certificate of both the deceased person who is the subject of the search and any lineal ascendant of the person who is the subject of the search pursuant to G.S. 130A-93 and deliver it to the person who requested the services."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.