States: Virginia

Virginia

 

 

Sealed:  1976

Access Status:  Sealed

•  Adoptees age 18 or older can request identifying information from the Virginia Department of Social Services, which investigates the matter and takes into account “birth family” concerns about the release
• If request is denied adoptees  can appeal
• In parental placement adoptions, where the consent to the adoption was executed on or after July 1, 1994, the entire adoption record shall be open to the adoptive parents, the adoptee who is 18years of age or older, and a birth parent who executed a written consent to the adoption

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.)

•  Access law and extended summary
• Virginia General Assembly

 

• 2024 Legislation: HB550 (OBC)
• 2023 Legislation: HB1969 (OBC)
• 2022 Legislation: HB16/SB63 (Safe Haven)     HB50 (Safe Haven Baby Boxes)
• 2021 Legislation:  HB 1371 (Safe Haven Baby Boxes)

 

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LINKS

2024

• Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony for HB550, January 18, 2024. Same letter to entire Virginia House of Delegates, January 27, 2024
• Virginia: House of Delegates Passes HB550. On to the Senate! Bastard Nation, January 30, 2024

2023

• Virginia: Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony in Support of HB1869, January 19, 2023

 

Updated: January 30, 2024

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