Bill on correction of birth records passed

The House Social Services panel has approved a measure that will allow parents and guardians to correct simulated birth records in a span of ten years sans liability to ease adoption proceedings, among others.

The unnumbered substitute bill specifically seeks to rectify the simulated birth records and prescribe administrative adoption proceedings, as well as extend the prescriptive period for the rectification of simulated births by amending Republic Act No. 8552 or the “Domestic Adoption Act of 1998.”