Adopted child's rights.
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In Colorado, the state registrar’s office keeps record of birth parents’ medical history. Colorado statute C.R.S. 19-5-305 (2008) provides that the state registrar shall prescribe an updated medical history statement of birth parents that the birth parent(s) may submit, with the completed contact preference form to the state registrar. Such medical history statement shall be a brief narrative statement written by the birth parent(s) indicating medical information about the birth parent or other biological relatives. Such medical history statement shall indicate that the birth parent is waiving confidentiality of any medical information supplied in the statement with respect to the adoptee, an adult descendant of an adoptee, or a legal representative of such person and to the state registrar or his or her designees. A birth parent may submit additional updated medical history statements to the state registrar no more frequently than every three years, unless there is a significant change in medical history.
The contact preference forms and updated medical history statements shall be maintained in the records of the state registrar. The records are accessible to the adult adoptee, the adult descendant of the adoptee, or the legal representative of the adoptee or descendant, upon submission of a written application form, proof of identity, and an explanation of the person's relationship to the adoptee, if applicable.
