(a) All (1) voluntary acknowledgments of paternity and rescissions of such acknowledgments executed in accordance with subsection (a) of section 46b-172, and (2) adjudications of paternity issued by a court or family support magistrate under section 46b-171, section 46b-172a or any other provision of the general statutes shall be filed in the paternity registry maintained by the Department of Public Health. All information in such registry shall be made available to the IV-D agency, as defined in subdivision (12) of subsection (b) of section 46b-231, for comparison with information in the state case registry established under subsection (l) of section 17b-179. The IV-D agency may disclose information in the paternity registry to an agency under cooperative agreement with the IV-D agency for child support enforcement purposes.
(b) Except for the IV-D agency, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the department shall restrict access to and issuance of certified copies of acknowledgments of paternity to the following parties: (1) Parents named on the acknowledgment of paternity; (2) the person whose birth is acknowledged, if such person is eighteen years of age or older; (3) a guardian of the person whose birth is acknowledged; (4) an authorized representative of the Department of Social Services; (5) an attorney representing such person or a parent named on the acknowledgment; or (6) agents of a state or federal agency, as approved by the department.
(June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7, S. 6, 38; P.A. 04-255, S. 16; P.A. 11-219, S. 4; P.A. 18-168, S. 57.)
History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 04-255 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re access to and issuance of copies of acknowledgments of paternity; P.A. 11-219 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that IV-D agency may disclose information in registry to agency under cooperative agreement; P.A. 18-168 amended Subsec. (b) by making a technical change in Subdiv. (2), adding a new Subdiv. (3) re guardian of person whose birth is acknowledged and redesignating existing Subdivs. (3) to (5) as Subdivs. (4) to (6), effective July 1, 2018.
See Sec. 7-36 for applicable definitions.
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