This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E3B42EE7FF8DFC592B550BA5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------E3B42EE7FF8DFC592B550BA5 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com ([204.212.38.27]) by mtiwgwc05.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990504010048.PSGB20010@bl-11.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 4 May 1999 01:00:48 +0000 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA29960; Mon, 3 May 1999 17:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 17:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <372E45EF.41785E14@worldnet.att.net> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:57:19 -0500 From: Margaret McCleskey <mamccleskey@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: mamccleskey@worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-WNS2.5 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: ecw@htcomp.net, TXHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: TX H.B. No. 836 References: <B0002714720@hamextw01.htcomp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <KkmcwC.A.tTH.oZkL3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: TXHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TXHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TXHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/251 X-Loop: TXHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TXHAMILT-L-request@rootsweb.com Send your representative and senator an e-mail. My representative's e-mail address is Kent.Grusendorf@house.state.tx.us Substitute senate for house for your senator. Be sure to put the period between first and last name. Don't know their names? Go to http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/capitol/faq.htm#question4 Please forward to other lists. Margaret McCleskey Elreeta Weathers wrote: > > Let's tell everyone! Please share with all. > > FULL TEXT MAY BE SEEN BELOW!! Please note the extreme emergency > nature > given to this bill that allows the skipping of normal procedures!! > > > King of Uvalde H.B. No. 836 > > A BILL TO BE ENTITLED > > 1-1 AN ACT > > 1-2 relating to access under the public information law to > birth and > > 1-3 death indexes. > > 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF > TEXAS: > > 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.115, Government Code, is > amended to > > 1-6 read as follows: > > 1-7 Sec. 552.115. EXCEPTION: BIRTH AND DEATH > RECORDS. A birth > > 1-8 or death record maintained by the bureau of vital > statistics of the > > 1-9 Texas Department of Health or a local registration > official is > >1-10 excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021, > except that: > >1-11 (1) a birth record is public information > and available > >1-12 to the public on and after the 50th anniversary of the > date on > >1-13 which the record is filed with the bureau of vital > statistics or > >1-14 local registration official; [and] > >1-15 (2) a death record is public information > and available > >1-16 to the public on and after the 25th anniversary of the > date on > >1-17 which the record is filed with the bureau of vital > statistics or > >1-18 local registration official; and > >1-19 (3) a birth index or a death index > established or > >1-20 maintained by the bureau of vital statistics or a local > >1-21 registration official is public information and > available to the > >1-22 public upon the anniversary of the date on which the > record becomes > >1-23 public as specified in this section. > >1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and > the > > 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create > an > > 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the > > 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three > several > > 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby > suspended, > > 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and > after its > > 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted. --------------E3B42EE7FF8DFC592B550BA5--