Colorado
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Sealed: 1942. Since then, many confusing and ambiguous amendments to the law including the final bill that passed in 2015.
Unsealed: 2015
Current Access Status: Unsealed
- The adoptee’s original birth certificate and amended birth certificate
- The final decree of adoption;
- Non-identifying information, as defined in section 19-1-103 (80);
- The final order of relinquishment;
- The order of termination of parental rights.
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center [2], Bastard Nation is linking our individual state pages to ARLC state access law links and summaries. In addition. our state pages include information specific to Bastard Nation actions and activities in each state.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
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- Colorado Access Law and Extended Summary [3]
- Colorado General Assembly [4]
- Colorado Department of Public Health [5]
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- SB19-025 Safe Haven education
LINKS
- Safe Haven bill signed into law: “really helps save children’s lives. [7] CBS4, Denver March 25,2019
- Editorial: Colorado Democrat jeopardizes bill to save babies [8], Colorado Springs Gazette, January 18. 2019
- Bill to require safe haven law education hits snag in committee [9]. CBS-Denver, January 16, 2019
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- Colorado has one of the broadest spectrums of adoption records around the country [10], Denver Post, April 22, 2016
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- Bastard Nation Action Alert: No on HB 1188, [11] March 12, 1999
- Shea Grim’s Response to Non-Adoptees Misrepresenting Adoptee Rights Bill [12], February 6, 1999
- Text: HB 1188 [13], 1999
Updated January 19, 2019
Return to list of states. [14]
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