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House Journal: Page 1336: Tuesday, April 7, 1998

40   the juvenile court or court and any other facts
41   considered to be relevant by the juvenile court or
42   court and shall grant the adoption petition.  If so
43   designated in the adoption decree, the name of the
44   adopted person shall be changed by issuance of that
45   decree.  The clerk of the court shall, within thirty
46   days of issuance, deliver one certified copy of any
47   adoption decree to the petitioner, one copy of any
48   adoption decree to the department and any agency or
49   person making an independent placement who placed a
50   minor person for adoption, and one certification of

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 1   adoption as prescribed in section 144.19 to the state
 2   registrar of vital statistics.  Upon receipt of the
 3   certification, the state registrar shall prepare a new
 4   birth certificate pursuant to section 144.23 and
 5   deliver to the parents named in the decree and any
 6   adult person adopted by the decree a copy of the new
 7   birth certificate.  The parents shall pay the fee
 8   prescribed in section 144.46.  If the person adopted
 9   was born outside the state, the state registrar shall
10   forward the certification of adoption to the
11   appropriate agency in the state or foreign nation of
12   birth.  A copy of any interlocutory adoption decree
13   vacation shall be delivered and another birth
14   certificate shall be prepared in the same manner as a
15   certification of adoption is delivered and the birth
16   certificate was originally prepared.
17     6.  The clerk of the district court shall attach to
18   the certified copy of the decree delivered to the
19   department, a copy of the adoption information form
20   required to be attached to the adoption petition under
21   section 600.6, subsection 5.
22     Sec. ___.  Section 600.15, subsection 1, paragraphs
23   a and b, Code 1997, are amended to read as follows:
24     a.  A decree establishing a parent-child
25   relationship by adoption which is issued pursuant to
26   due process of law by a juvenile court or court of any
27   other jurisdiction in the United States shall be
28   recognized in this state.
29     b.  A decree terminating a parent-child
30   relationship which is issued pursuant to due process
31   of law by a juvenile court or court of any other
32   jurisdiction in the United States shall be recognized
33   in this state."
34     8.  Page 2, by inserting after line 27 the
35   following:
36     "Sec. ___.  Section 600.16A, subsection 2,
37   paragraphs b and c, Code 1997, are amended to read as
38   follows:
39     b.  The juvenile court or court, for good cause,

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