HB 1380 – AS INTRODUCED

2008 SESSION

08-2449

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

ANALYSIS

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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.