Maryland
Sealed: 1947
Access Status: Restricted
- court order
- Adoptees 21 years of age and older whose adoptions were finalized on or after January 1, 2000, may request their original birth certificates/identifying information. subject to disclosure veto
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 and about current OBC access.
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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2021 Legislation: SB 331/HB999 (OBC)
2020 Legislation: HB1039/SB 743/ (OBC)
2019 Legislation, HB167
Records Advocacy
- Maryland Open Records Access (Facebook)
- Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights (CCAR) Facebook
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2021 Campaign:
LINKS
- Adoptees Press States for Access to Original Birth Certificates, PEW Charitable Trusts, April 26, 2021
- Maryland Bill That Would Give All Adoptees Access To Original Birth Records Fails In Senate. WJZ-TV, Baltimore, April 1, 2021
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- Maryland SB 331 Defeat: Adoptee Rights is “A Bad Idea”.Bastard Nation, March 31, 2021
- Bill That Would’ve Granted Adoptees Access to Birth Certificates Fails on Senate Floor, Maryland Matters, March 30, 2021
- VIDEO: Floor vote on SB 331. Defeated 16-31. March 29, 2021.(Marker 1:10)
- Maryland SB 331: Bastard National Letter to Senate Leaders, March 22, 2021. Bring to floor; support. pass.
- Delegate Mike Griffith Introduces Maryland HB0999. Capital Coalition for Adoptee Rights, February 3, 2021
- Testimony in Support of Maryland SB 331, Senate Judiciary Committee, January 26, 2021, by Joanne Wolf Small
- Bastard Nation Testimony in Support of Maryland SB 331. Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, January 26, 2021
- Bastard Nation Action Alert: Attention Marylanders: Maryland SB 331 Senate Judiciary Committee – DO PASS!, January 20, 2021
- Video: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, January 26, 2021
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- Opinion, Linda Clausen: Maryland must change its adoption laws to allow access to birth certificates, Capital Gazette, January 5, 2020
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Sen. Susan Lee Introduces Equal Rights Legislation in Maryland, CCAR, February 4, 2020
- Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights formed: working to secure equal rights for all adult adopted people who were born or adopted in the region, Bastard Nation, February 8, 2020
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Hearings Set in House and Senate Judiciary Committees, CCAR, February 8, 2020
- Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony on H 1039, Bastard Nation, February 21, 2020
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- Susie Stricker: Maryland’s birth certificate policy discriminates against adoptees. It’s time for a change. Capital;Gazette., July 15, 2019
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- Susie Stricker: Maryland must have original birth certificates for its adoptees, Capital Gazette, December 11, 2018
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Bastard Nation Action Alert: The UAA in Maryland, March 19. 1999
Updated: May 5, 2021
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