House File 2370 - Enrolled House File 2370 AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION REGARDING POSTADOPTION SERVICES TO ALL ADOPTIVE FAMILIES. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. NEW SECTION . 600.7B Postadoption information. The department shall develop and furnish to the state registrar of vital statistics a document listing all postadoption services available to adoptive families in the state, to be delivered along with a copy of the new birth certificate to the parents named in the adoption decree pursuant to section 600.13. Sec. 2. Section 600.13, subsection 5, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows: 5. a. An interlocutory or a final adoption decree shall be entered with the clerk of court. Such decree shall set forth any facts of the adoption petition which have been proven to the satisfaction of the juvenile court or court and any other facts considered to be relevant by the juvenile court or court and shall grant the adoption petition. If so designated in the adoption decree, the name of the adopted person shall be changed by issuance of that decree. b. The clerk of the court shall, within thirty days of issuance, deliver one certified copy of any adoption decree to the petitioner, one copy of any adoption decree to the department and any adoption service provider who placed a minor person for adoption, and one certification of adoption as
House File 2370, p. 2 prescribed in section 144.19 to the state registrar of vital statistics at no charge. c. Upon receipt of the certification, the state registrar shall prepare a new birth certificate pursuant to section 144.23 and deliver shall do one of the following, as applicable: (1) Deliver to the parents named in the decree and any adult person adopted by the decree a copy of the new birth certificate along with a document, developed and furnished by the department, listing all postadoption services available to adoptive families in the state . (2) Deliver to any adult person adopted by the decree a copy of the new birth certificate. d. The parents shall pay the fee prescribed in section 144.46 . e. If the person adopted was born outside this state but in the United States, the state registrar shall forward the certification of adoption to the appropriate agency in the state of birth. f. A copy of any interlocutory adoption decree vacation shall be delivered and another birth certificate shall be prepared in the same manner as a certification of adoption is delivered and the birth certificate was originally prepared. ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House ______________________________ CHARLES SCHNEIDER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2370, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ CARMINE BOAL Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2018 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor