HB 1380 – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 1380
AN ACT relative to the procedure for amending a birth record.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lawrence, Hills 27
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill provides that, if a parent’s name has been on the birth record for a year or more, the name shall not be removed without the parent’s consent.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2449
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to the procedure for amending a birth record.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Amendment to Birth Record. Amend RSA 5-C:89 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:
VI. If a parent’s name has been on the birth record for a year or more, the name of the parent on the birth record shall not be removed or changed without the parent’s consent.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.