Idaho
Sealed: unknown
Access Status: Sealed
- Access available only by court order or conditionally through a state-operated “voluntary adoption registry.”
- Disclosure of an original birth certificate through the registry is subject to consent of the parties; may require the consent of both birth parents.
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, 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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Just when you think Idaho can’t get any worse…only adoptees 40 years of age and older are mature and experienced enough to maybe obtain their own OBCs. (Video courtesy of Adoptee Rights Law Center)
On March 29, 2022, Idaho’s governor signed S1320, a ridiculous bill that does nothing to serve the state’s already living adoptees and won’t even be “useful ” to anyone until 2039. They all its cutting edge.” Here is what it does:
Idaho’s New Discriminatory Law: A FAQ from The Adoptee Rights Laws Center
- Idaho access law and summary
- Idaho Legislature
- OBC petition and search information from the State of Idaho
- Idaho Adoption Registry
2025 Legislation HB1059 (SH/SHBB)
2024 Legislation HB544 (OBC)
- 2022 Legislation: S1320 (OBC)
- 2021 Legislation: HB59 (OBC)
LINKS
2025
- Idaho Falls woman searching for biological family discovers she was kidnapped by orphanage, East Idaho News, December 11, 2025
2024
The Adoptee Rights Law Center, FAQ on Discriminatory HB544, 2024
Action Alert: Idaho HB 544, Emergency Action ion Alert, Hearing, Monday March 11, March 10, 2024
- Idaho HB544: Bastard Letter of Opposition, March 10, 2024
2022
- The Adoptee Rights Law Center: Veto SB 1320, March 24, 2022. Joint letter to the Governor of Idaho asking him to veto the bill. Bastard Nation signed on to it.
- VIDEO: Hearing on SB 1320 in Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee, February 22, 2022
- Opposition to Idaho SB1320. Adoptee Rights Law Center, March 10, 2022
- Idaho SB 1320: Bastard Nation Letter to House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee–Vote No, March 16, 2022
2021
- Idaho: Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony in Opposition to HB0059, March 3, 2021
- Far-right Idaho Republicans battle to control party, state, Associated Press, June 8, 2021
Updated December 22, 2025
