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Foreign Born Adoptees' Must Not Have Their Vital Records Sealed

Please fax, email, and call bill sponsors, and the members of the Texas House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee. Urge them to amend TX HB 806 to allow foreign born adoptees access to their birth documents, without a court order, when they reach the age of majority. Currently, Texas has no standard practice for issuing birth certificates to children adopted from abroad. HB 806, in attempting to standardize this procedure, has created the unintended side effect of sealing foreign born adoptees' birth documents permanently. Please write and ask ask that HB806 be
amended to allow foreign born adoptees, upon reaching adulthood, to have access to the documents on which a "supplementary birth certificate" filing is based, without a court order.

Bastard Nation uncovered this seemingly unintended side effect and brought it to the attention of the committee in testimony heard on Friday, March 15th. Until then, the sponsors of this bill were unaware of the problem and said they had not received any calls or letters concerning this issue. Nearly all of foreign born children adopted in the United States come from countries where original birth documents are not sealed. It is against international policy to permanently strip these children of their identities. There is no reason that documents provided to the Texas Bureau
of Vital Statistics regarding a foreign born adoptee be permanently sealed when a Texas birth certificate is issued.

Read the full text at
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-b...RSION=1&TYPE=B

*** CONTACT INFORMATION ***

HB806 Sponsors:

The Honorable Representative Bob Hunter

Capitol Office

Room CAP GW.11

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0718

(512) 463-6244 Fax



The Honorable Senator Mike Jackson

P.O. Box 12068

Capitol Station

Austin, Texas 78711

(512) 463-0111

(512) 475-3727 Fax



Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee Members



The Honorable Representative Harold Dutton

Room CAP 1N.09

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0510

(512) 463-5896 Fax



The Honorable Representative Toby Goodman

Room CAP 4N.04

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0562

(512) 475-1178 Fax





The Honorable Representative Todd Baxter

Room EXT E2.802

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0631

(512) 236-1065 Fax



The Honorable Representative Joaquin Castro

Room EXT E2.714

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0669

(512) 463-5896 Fax



The Honorable Representative Jim Dunnam

Room EXT E2.322

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0508

(512) 463-5934 Fax



The Honorable Representative Terri Hodge

Room E2.818

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0586

(512) 463-8147 Fax



The Honorable Representative Joe Moreno

Room EXT E1.216

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0614

(512) 463-5896 Fax



The Honorable Representative Geanie Morrison

Room EXT E2.904

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0456

(512) 476-3933 Fax



The Honorable Representative Elvira Reyna

Room EXT E1.320

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, TX 78768

(512) 463-0464

(512) 463-1492 Fax





Quick Email Cut & Paste:



Note: Email is may not be accepted by all Texas House members, so some addresses may bounce.To be considered, email should at minimum contain, Name, Physical Address, Zip, Phone Number(s), as well as an Email address.



bob.hunter@house.state.tx.us,

harold.dutton@house.state.tx.us,

todd.baxter@house.state.tx.us,

joaquin.castro@house.state.tx.us,

jim.duncan@house.state.tx.us,

terri.hodge@house.state.tx.us,

joe.moreno@house.state.tx.us,

geanie.morrison@house.state.tx.us,

elvira.reyna@house.state.tx.us


Call, fax, write today! Your letters and phone calls do make a difference.


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www.adoptee.2ya.com

Director
Adoptees Caucus for Truth (ACT)
http://act.vze.com

Board Member and Registry Owner
Florida Search Network
www.floridasearchnetwork.web1000.com/
www.reunion.vze.com

Moderator
Adoptee Activists
www.activist.vze.com

SIGN THIS PETITION: http://obc.2ya.com

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Honorable Statesmen,

Adoptees have enough obstacles to discovering their true identity without oversights in new laws robbing them of their origins. I implore you to amend HB 806 so that adoptees born and exported from countries that do not seal adoption records are not penalized and hampered by the default adoption restrictions of states such as Texas. Do not seal the birth records of foreign born adoptees whose own laws allow them access to truth, not secrecy and lies.

Sincerely,

Ray Buffer

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Huntington Beach, CA 92649

raybuffer@socal.rr.com

www.raybuffer.com
www.adoptee.2ya.com

Director
Adoptees Caucus for Truth (ACT)
http://act.vze.com

Board Member and Registry Owner
Florida Search Network
www.floridasearchnetwork.web1000.com/
www.reunion.vze.com

Moderator
Adoptee Activists
www.activist.vze.com

SIGN THIS PETITION: http://obc.2ya.com