Iowa
Sealed: 1941
Access Status: Sealed
OBC is available upon request for adoptees at age 18., but release is subject to parent redaction.
Law contains a corrupt “Contact Preference Form” that acts as a Disclosure Veto; identifying information, possibly including the original name of the adoptee, will be blacked out if requested by biological parent(s)
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 legislation at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
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- Iowa access law Iowa Summary
- Open Adoption Records – Access to Original Birth Certificate, Iowa Department of Public Health
- Iowa General Assembly
- 2023 Legislation (OBC)
- 2022 Legislation: HB2024 (Safe Haven)
- 2021 Legislation: SBB1040 (OBC)
- 2020 Legislation: HB621 (OBC)
- Legislation 2019 (Bills are re-numbered when amendments are made. Below are current numbers)
- HF746
- SF621
- HF137
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LINKS
- Iowa: Bastard Nation Letter of Support for SB 187/HF60. Addition of “missing parent” to OBC, February 12, 2023. SUPPORT
- Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony/Letter in Opposition to SSB1040/.HSB226, March 3, 2021
- House votes to let adult adoptees get original birth certificates, Iowa Radio, April 13, 2021
- VIDEO: Floor debate and vote, April 13, 2021:
- How a new Iowa law will help adult adoptees get birth certificates, WHO-TV Des Moines, May 24, 2021
- Iowa: The Fix was Always In, Bastard Nation, June 2, 2021
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- Is this the year for Iowa? by Greg Luce, Adoptee Rights Law Center, March 6, 2019
- Action Alert: Iowa SF 621. Say No! Urgent!–with update. Amendments have been filed. April 22, 2019
- American Adoption Congress Statement in Opposition to SSF621, April 22, 2019
- Redaction amendment added “Merged bill” by Adoptee Rights Law Center showing changes, April 22, 2019
- Bill would allow Iowa adoptees to access birth certificates, KCCI-TV–DesMoines, April 22, 2019
- Bastard Nation Letter to Iowa Senate: Please Vote No on Redactions/Restrictions on SF621, April 22, 2019
- Action Alert: Iowa SF621: Say No to Redactions. Kill the Bill. Urgent, April 24, 2019
- Don’t Let Yourself by Redacted. Tell AdoptionLand that Redactions are not Acceptable, Bastard Nation, April 26, 2019
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Iowa Adoptees Denied Access to Their Own Birth Certificates by Privacy Laws, WHO-TV, Des Moines, November 26, 2019
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- Iowa adoptees seek access to birth certificates, Iowa State Daily, February 11, 2018
- Updated February 19, 12023
