A Bill simplifying proof of maternity was dropped from legislative proceedings

NordenBladet —

The Bill on Amendments to the Vital Statistics Registration Act (106 SE), initiated by Member of the Riigikogu Varro Vooglaid, intended to amend the procedure for registering a child in a case where the child is born at home or on the way to a provider of health care services. The Bill would allow the relevant certificate to be issued in such cases by the family doctor.

Under the current legislation, in many cases where a child has been born at home or on the way to the hospital, the parents have found themselves forced to pass a DNA test to prove maternity and use this to apply for the registration of the birth through a court. Despite this, the law does not provide a procedure for proving maternity, and the abovementioned need to take a DNA test is simply a practice that has been adopted by the courts.

During the debate, Helmen Kütt (Social Democratic Party), Anti Poolamets (Estonian Conservative People’s Party), and Mart Maastik (Isamaa) took the floor on behalf of their parliamentary groups.

The lead committee moved to reject the Bill at the first reading. 46 members of the Riigikogu voted in favour of the motion and 20 were against it. The Bill was dropped from the legislative proceedings.

At 2 p.m., the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak in the Session Hall of the Riigikogu. The speech can be followed live either in Ukrainian, or with simultaneous interpretation into Estonian or English on the web page of the Riigikogu. After the speech, a family photograph will be taken in the Session Hall with members of the Riigikogu.

The text of the speech can be read later from the verbatim record and the video recording can be viewed on the Riigikogu YouTube channel. Photos will be uploaded as soon as possible (author: (Erik Peinar / Chancellery of the Riigikogu).

Verbatim record of the sitting (in Estonian)

Video recording will be available to watch later on the Riigikogu YouTube channel.

Riigikogu Press Service
Maris Meiessaar
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Source: Parliament of Estonia