Passed - State and Federal Legislation
TENNESSEE:
SB331 – Amendment to Title 36 and Title 39/2335350
PASSED: 03/20/2023
Summary:
(1) Seeks to legally establish the individual as the biological parent of a child in the person’s custody with intent to deprive the individual of property, or to prevent the child’s actual biological parent from exercising parental rights to the child; and the person knows or reasonably should know that the individual is not the child’s biological parent; or
(2) Seeks to be legally established as a child’s parent based on the person’s status as a biological parent of the child; and the person knows or reasonably should know that the person is not the child’s biological parent.
However, the provisions above do not apply in the following situations:
(1) When the child involved was conceived as a result of an act that would be aggravated rape; rape; rape of a child; especially aggravated rape; or especially aggravated rape of a child;
(2) When the child involved has been, or is, in the process of being adopted; or
(3) When the victim of the offense was the defendant’s spouse at the time of the offense.
ON MARCH 20, 2023, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 331, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 clarifies that parentage fraud occurs when the individual that a person seeks to legally establish as the biological parent of a child in the person’s custody with intent to deprive the individual of property and the person knows or reasonably should know that the individual is not the child’s biological parent is “another individual”.
This amendment also reduces the classification of parentage fraud from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor.
https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-senate-bill-331-criminal-offenses-as-enacted-establishes-the-class-b-misdemeanor-of-parentage-fraud-amends-tca-title-36-and-title-39/2335350/
COLORADO:
HB15-1282 – Crimes of Deception & Lying in Birth Certificates
PASSED: 06/05/2015 Governor Signed Bill
Summary:
The bill makes it a class 2 misdemeanor for a birth parent to intentionally omit material information regarding his or her own personal data for use in the preparation of an original birth certificate registering the birth of a child.
The bill creates a crime of submitting false information for the preparation of a birth certificate if a person knowingly:
- Creates a false record for use in the preparation of an original birth certificate or an amended birth certificate; or
- Supplies false information about material information, knowingly submits the wrong name of a birth parent, or knowingly submits a fictitious name of a birth parent for use in the preparation of an original birth certificate or an amended birth certificate; or
- Directs another person to supply false information about material information, to submit the wrong name of a birth parent, or to submit a fictitious name of a birth parent for use in the preparation of an original birth certificate or an amended birth certificate.
WAPF’s Advisory Member — Samantha Jadin was instrumental in passing this much needed bill. Watch her interview: https://www.9news.com/article/life/moms/colorado-birth-certificate-changes-to-prevent-fraud/128813813
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