From: Darburns@aol.com Reply-To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [INDIANA] House Bill 1540 - Birth and Death Records Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:48:19 EST There is proposed legislation to prohibit public access to vital records for the state of Indiana! House Bill (HB) 1540 can be read online at <A HREF="http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2003/IN/IN1540.1.html"> http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2003/IN/IN1540.1.html</A> Some of the language in HB 1540 is: "h. When one hundred (100) years has elapsed after the date of birth, the records of those events in the custody of the state or local registrar shall become available to the public....." There is much more to read concerning HB 1540. Have I gotten your attention yet? I sure hope so and I hope that each and every one of us contacts our legislators about this. We've got to contact our legistatures immediately telling them of our opposition regarding HB 1540 as genealogists and family historians. Please read on: In this morning's Indianapolis Star in Section B City & State on page 3,House Bill 1540 is listed for Hearing on Wednesday morning at 10:30 from the Public Health Committee. Our emails and phone calls to legislators will need to start immediately with follow up letters in the mail on Monday!  Express your opposition to proposed HB 1540 adopting new privacy standards for Indiana's public vital records! Even if you live outside the state of Indiana you may be affected by this HB. This applies to all of us - If we, at some point, wish to become a member of an organization that requires us to prove our lineage and HB 1540 becomes a law we will not have access to birth or death records to do this. Our desire to become a members of any organization that requires us to prove our lineage may be in jeopardy! Please contact the persons that have authored this proposed legislature. The site where you can find email address for IN Representatives is <A HREF="http://www.in.gov/cgi-in/legislative/contact/contact.pl">http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl</A> We are all concerned about identity theft. The state of Indiana requires information from us that should safeguard the issues of theft identity. Please contact your representatives by email, phone and follow-up with a letter. Thank you for reading this email.>Darlene Anderson ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail