Rhode Island
Sealed: 1944
Unsealed 2012
Access Status: Unsealed
- OBC access without restriction or condition to adoptees age 18 and older.
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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- 2022 Legislation: H7310 (OBC access for descendants)
- 2021 Legislation: S250 (reduce age for OBC from 25-18)
- 2020 Legislation: S2692 (reduce age for OBC from 25-18))
LINKS
- It’s Official! Rhode Island lowers OBC age to 18, Bastard Nation, July 12, 2021
- Rhode Island dumps bad precedent. Lowers OBC access to age 18, Bastard Nation, July 3, 2021
- Bastard Nation Letter to Rhode Island Senate Leadership–Support HB250 Sub B, June 27, 2021
- Rhode Island: Bastard Nation Testimony to House Judiciary Committee in Support of H 6189 to reduce the age to obtain OBC from 25 to 18, April 6, 2021
- Rhode Island: Bastard Nation Testimony in Support of SB 250 to Reduce Age of Adoptees to Obtain OBCs. Please move bill forward, March 28, 2021
- Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony TO RI Senate Judiciary Committee in Support of HB 250 to reduce the age to obtain OBC from 25 to 18, February 25, 2021
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Bastard Nation worked heavily in Rhode Island. Due to the large number of bills and action alerts before 2021, we are posting the most relevant,
- Rhode Island #7: Governor signs law! Another brick falls, Daily Bastardette, July 1, 2011
- Rhode Island 478/Sub AA Passes House, Daily Bastardette. June 29, 2011
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support to Full House, S488AA Daily Bastardette, June 29, 2011
- Good News for Rhode Island! YES! Daily Bastardette, June 22, 2011
- Bastard Nation Letter of Support to Rhode Island Senate for S478 Sub and Age Reduction, Daily Bastardette, June 21, 2011
- Letter to Providence Journal by Marley Greiner, Exe, Chair of Bastard Nation Published, Daily Bastardette, June 20, 2011
- Rhode Island: Providence Journal Supports Clean Bill S 0361H/5453, Daily Bastardette. April 3, 2011
- Good News! Clean Bill Introduced in Rhode Island, Daily Bastardette, February 18, 2011
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- Bastard Nation Action Alert: Stop S2759/H7877, May 18, 2010
- Hen meet fox!, Daily Bastardette, May 14, 2010
- Rhode Island Expanding the Veto, Daily Bastardette, April 14, 2010
Updated February 5, 2022
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