Section 7-50 - Restrictions on content of birth certificates. Exceptions. Filing of acknowledgments or adjudications of paternity. Removal or changing of paternity information. Access to copies restricted(a) No certificate of birth shall contain any specific statement that the child was born to parents married or unmarried to each other, except that information on whether the child was born to parents married or unmarried to each other and the marital status of the person who gave birth shall be recorded on a confidential portion of the certificate pursuant to section 7-48. Upon the completion of an acknowledgment of parentage at a hospital, concurrent with the hospital's electronic transmission of birth data to the department, or at a town in the case of a home birth, concurrent with the registration of the birth data by the town, the acknowledgment shall be filed in the parentage registry maintained by the department, as required by section 19a-42a, and the name of the acknowledged parent shall be entered in or upon the birth certificate or birth record of such child. All properly completed post birth acknowledgments or certified adjudications of parentage received by the department shall be filed in the parentage registry maintained by the department, and the name of the acknowledged parent shall be entered in or upon the birth record or certificate of such child by the department, if there is no parentage, other than the person who gave birth, already recorded on the birth certificate. If the certificate already contains the information of a parent other than the person who gave birth, information shall not be removed except upon receipt by the department of a certified order by a court of competent jurisdiction in which there is a finding that the individual recorded on the birth certificate, specifically referenced by name, is not the child's parent, or a finding that a different individual than the one recorded, specifically referenced by name, is the child's parent. The name of the parent on a birth certificate or birth record shall otherwise be removed or changed only upon the filing of a rescission in such registry, as provided in section 19a-42a. The Social Security number of the father of a nonmarital child may be entered in or upon the birth certificate or birth record of such child if such entry is done in accordance with 5 USC 552a . (b) The department shall restrict access to and issuance of certified copies of acknowledgments of paternity and acknowledgments of parentage as provided in section 19a-42a.(1949 Rev., S. 571; P.A. 79-434, S. 3; P.A. 80-483, S. 17, 186; P.A. 85-323; P.A. 94-51, S. 2, 3; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 44, 130; P.A. 96-180, S. 3, 166; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7, S. 4, 38; P.A. 01-163, S. 11; P.A. 04-255, S. 4; P.A. 08-66, S. 3; 08-184, S. 48.)
Amended by P.A. 21-0015,S. 89 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2022. Cited. 34 CS 187.