HB 303 passed a final vote in the House after undergoing a substantial revision. The bill sent to the Senate would set up a system under which social services departments would maintain a list of registered confidential intermediaries who would provide contact services to qualified adopted individuals and biological parents of adopted individuals. A person contacted by an intermediary would have to provide written consent, specifying the nature of the information to be disclosed, before any information concerning that person could be disclosed. The bill also would provide for open adoption records for adoptions finalized after
Jan. 1, 1999 unless a biological parent or adopted individual has filed a disclosure veto.

I am getting reports that this Bill did not make it through. It sounds like it just died in limbo. The fight will be taken up again next year.

Maryland Links

Maryland Adoption law 
Summary from the State of MD. law.

Maryland Adoption law 
Intermediary bill was signed by the governor in 1998.