GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE BILL 846

Second Edition Engrossed 4/26/11

Short Title:        Expand Access/Death Certificate/Adult Adoptee.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative LaRoque (Primary Sponsor) For a complete list of Sponsors, see Bill Information on the NCGA Web Site.
Referred to:	Judiciary Subcommittee C.

April 7, 2011

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, the agency may obtain a copy of the death certificate pursuant to G.S. 130A-93 and deliver it to the person who requested the services. If the agency further determines that a lineal ascendant of the deceased person who is the subject of the search is deceased, the agency may also obtain a copy of the death certificate of the deceased lineal ascendant and deliver it to the person who requested the services."

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