Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 181 - VITAL STATISTICS
Subchapter C - CENTRAL ADOPTION REGISTRY
Section 181.43 - Requirement to Send Information to the Central Adoption Registry and the Coordination of the Release of Identifying Information with an Authorized Registry
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) An authorized voluntary adoption registry shall send to the Central Adoption Registry (CAR) duplicate information of all registrant information it maintains in its registry. This includes all registrant file information and Form VS - 2271. The child-placing agency's adoption case files are not needed, unless the information contained in those files provides information to benefit or aid the match process. Registrant information shall also include proof of age and identity of each registrant, and all known names, dates of birth, and places of birth of each person for whom the registrant is searching, if known. Subsequent documentation including address changes of the registrant received by the registry shall be forwarded to the CAR.
(b) Registrant information obtained by a registry on or after June 1, 1999, shall be forwarded to the CAR by the 15th day of the following month after the registration application becomes active.
(c) If a match is identified by the CAR between two applicants, and one of the applicants is registered only with an authorized registry and not the CAR, the CAR shall notify that agency's registry and confirm the biological relationship. The CAR shall then notify the applicant who is registered with the CAR that a match has been made and allow the applicant to either decide to register with the other matching registry or to request matching procedures with only the CAR. If the latter is chosen, the CAR shall provide to the agency's registry copies of all documentation used during and up to the release of identifying information. If the applicant who is registered only with the CAR requests matching procedures with the agency's registry, then the CAR shall release any documentation necessary for the agency's registry to coordinate the release of identifying information. The registry shall provide to the CAR copies of all documentation used during and up to the release of identifying information.
