This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------31E51A4D41E4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope everyone in TX will write and get this stopped. -- Mailto:fvvpjv29@idt.net --------------31E51A4D41E4 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: by u3.farm.idt.net for fvvpjv29 (with pop daemon (v1.21 1997/08/10) Thu Apr 22 07:45:37 1999) X-From_: MSongy7777@aol.com Thu Apr 22 00:49:54 1999 Received: from mail-relay3.idt.net (MAIL-RELAY3.IDT.NET [169.132.8.27]) by u3.farm.idt.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA01007 for <fvvpjv29@idt.net>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:49:54 -0400 (EDT) From: MSongy7777@aol.com Received: from imo23.mx.aol.com (imo23.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.67]) by mail-relay3.idt.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA16881 for <fvvpjv29@idt.net>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:49:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MSongy7777@aol.com (8066) by imo23.mx.aol.com (IMOv20) id 4FUWa26762; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:47:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <fac66035.245003fa@aol.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:47:54 EDT Subject: Help to stop TX HB836, read and email Senators... To: gasmith@texoma.net, EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com CC: bgiacone@blockbuster.com, Phisig441@aol.com, P11a11co@aol.com, chance@texoma.net, Ronprins@aol.com, all-rite@swbell.net, fvvpjv29@idt.net, Ollie8004@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Reply-To: MSongy7777@aol.com Please read the following letter regarding a bill being pushed in Texas to lock up vital records for 25 to 50 years on death and birth records respectively. Please forward this to anyone you know in Texas who is interested in genealogy, and ask them to write the Texas Senate to stop this bill. I personally feel the adoption bill is correct, and the original birth records should be made available after age 21. I feel the adopted child should have the right to this information as an adult. Have everyone you can write to the senators to preserve our rights to information. Thanks, Marguerite Prince Songy Email addresses for both Texas Senators: Please provide your postal mailing address on all correspondence) senator@hutchison.senate.gov Phil_Gramm@gramm.senate.gov The HB 836 passed the Public Health Committee in the State House of Representatives on March 30. It was referred to the Senate State Affairs Committee. As of today, the bill does not have a Senate sponsor. If we cause enough rancor, it is possible no one will take on the sponsorship of the bill and it will die in committee. On the otherhand, if a sponsor is found, we want to be on record requesting a hearing. At that hearing, we would need to flood the room with genealogists and other concerned citizens. While a law clarifying the present confusing law might be welcome, amendment on HB 836 closes the birth and death indexes until the actual records become public which is 25-50 years. .Monday night I contacted Jack Brissee, Chair of the FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee. Jack and his committee work with genealogists and other organizations all over the country when records are threatened with closure or misuse. He jumped on it and has faxed a letter to the Chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee. He has urged everyone to contact all genealogists, genealogical, historical and other concerned organizations to write a calm, collected, but, concerned letter to the Chair of the Senate Affairs Committee and to our own Senator concerning this bill. The Honorable Florence Shapiro Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs P.O.Box 12068 Capital Station Austin, TX 78711 Another bill in the legislature each of you should be aware of is HB13. This bill seeks to allow adoptees to obtain their original birth certificate upon reaching the age of 21. HB13 has met with the hostility of child placement services and birth mothers. Currently it is held up in committee where it may die. Part of the HB 13 awareness may have had some effect on HB 836 because both have to do with vital statistics registration If you wish to pass this letter around, please feel free to do so. I have included this mailing to a number of my columnist colleagues around the country who might wish to be alert to what is happening, down here, in Texas. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who hears any news on this matter. Thank You, MIC Mic Barnette's Writes a Weekly Genealogy Column In The Houston Chronicle. Read it on the Web At Barnette's Family Tree Book Company http://barnettesbooks.com ----------------------------------------------- --------------31E51A4D41E4--