Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2093: Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate; contact preference form.
Passed one chamber Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
HB 2093 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate; contact preference form. Primary sponsor: Wendell Walker (Republican). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 22, 2025): Left in Education and Health.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate; contact preference form. Allows the State Registrar to provide, upon written request, any adult adopted person access to his original birth certificate. The bill allows a birth parent to indicate whether they would like to be contacted by an adoptee on a contact preference form provided by the State Registrar that shall accompany the adoptee's original birth certificate, which shall be released to an adopted person when he requests his original birth certificate.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3 · Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendell Walker | Primary sponsor | Republican | House | 52 |
| Katrina Callsen | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 54 |
| Jennifer Carroll Foy | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 33 |
| Debra Gardner | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 76 |
| Ian T. Lovejoy | Co-sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Education and Health
- Assigned Education sub: Health
- Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
- Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- Health and Human Services Substitute agreed to
- Read second time
- Read first time
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2093)
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