A bill making its way through the legislature revises adoption proceedings regarding the adult adoption of biological children. Currently if an adult wants to adopt another adult, the adoptee must have lived in the adoptive parent’s home for at least six months while still a minor. House Bill 1119 waives that six month requirement if the person being adopted is the biological child of the adoptive parent. Senator Art Rusch is a prime sponsor of the legislation.
“You know there’s a variety of different reasons why people may decide that they re-establish that parental relationship,” Rusch says. “Whether they were given up for adoption, whether the parental rights were terminated, but once they’re an adult I guess our feeling is that they should have that right to resume that legal relationship with their biological parent if that’s of course their desire.”
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to pass House Bill 1119, and placed it on the consent calendar.