FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 21
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SHIELDS.
Pre-filed December 1, 2004, and ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 12, 2005, and referred to the Committee on Aging, Families, Mental and Public Health.
Reported from the Committee February 14, 2005, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 24, 2005. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0411S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 453.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to putative father registry.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 453.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 453.020, to read as follows:
453.020. 1. The petition for adoption shall state:
(1) The name, sex and place of birth of the person sought to be adopted;
(2) The name of his parents, if known to the petitioner;
(3) If the person sought to be adopted is a minor, the fact that petitioner has the ability to properly care for, maintain and educate such person; and
(4) If it is desired to change the name of such person, the new name.
2. The petition for adoption shall include payment of a fifty dollar filing fee which shall be used to fund the putative father registry established pursuant to section 192.016, RSMo.
3. All fees provided for in this section shall be deposited in the putative father registry fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrary, money in the fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue at the end of the biennium, but shall be used upon appropriation by the general assembly for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.