South Carolina
Sealed: 1963
Access Status: sealed
- law is confusing and unclear
- court order only
- disclosure veto
- Identifying information may be released through the state’s public adoption agency if 1) the adoptee is 21 years of age; 2) all parties consent in writing; 3) the parties “undergo counseling by the adoption agency concerning the effects of the disclosure.”
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.)https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-carolina/articles/2018-06-19/new-south-carolina-law-opens-birth-records-to-adult-adoptees
- Access law and expanded summary
- South Carolina Legislature
- 2024 Legislation: H 5265 (OBC)
- 2023 Legislation: HB3556, HB3557 (Trad Safe Haven)
- 2022 Legislation: HB4566 HB5000 (OBC) HB4019 (Safe Haven)
- 2021 Legislation: HB4466 (OBC) ) HB4019 (Safe Haven)
- 2019 Legislation H3294
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LINKS
- VIDEO; HB5000 House Judiciary vote, March 29, 2022
- Adoption Fables and the Right to Know by Mary Ellen Gambutti, Visible Magazine, January 4, 2022
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- South Carolina. OBC Bill Introduced: Retains infantile restrictions, Daily Bastardette, November 26, 2021
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- New South Carolina law opens birth records to adult adoptees, US News & World Report, June 19, 2018
- Bastard Nation Dual Chamber Alert. South Carolina H3775-Amended but still dirty. Oppose. Session ends today. May 10, 2018
- South Carolina H3775. Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony to Senate Committee on Medical Affairs; Full Senate, May 8, 2018
- South Carolina lawmakers may allow adoptees to see sealed birth records, US News & World Report, May 3, 2018
- What this bill does by Gregory Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Daily Center, March 10, 2018
- South Carolina Emergency Alert, H378. Don’t let a clean bill go bad. Keep Section 3 clean. March 18, 2018
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- Safe Haven in South Carolina. It’s a God Thing, Daily Bastardette, 25, 2005
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- South Carolina: An OBC to get a drivers license, Daily Bastardette, February 24, 2002
Updated: March 20, 2024
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We can’t let May’s amendment pass. It heaps “more” injustice on adoptees.