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Support Missouri HB 1599
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UPDATE! It is not too late to get your support for HB 1599to the House Children and Families Committee. The bill received a hearing on February 2 but no vote was taken. The committee meets again on Tuesday February 9. The bill does not appear on the calendar, but we have heard it might be voted on that day. Read Bastard Nation’s submitted testimony here.
HB 1599 will be heard on Tuesday February 2, 2016 before the House Children and Families Committee. This is a clean bill that will restore access to all Missouri-born adoptees, without restrictions or conditions, their original birth certificates. The committee will meet at Noon in Room #1.
- The bill and its history is here.
- Under current law, adoptees can access their OBC only through court order. The current law is here.
Please submit your written testimony (especially if you are connected to Missouri) or letter of support for HB 1599 as written without restriction to bill sponsor Rep. Don Phillips and to committee members now. Your message need not be long. Let them know that the era of sealed birth certificates is over and that Missouri adoptees should be treated the same as the not adopted. Ask them to vote YES for HB 1599.
Below is the contact list for the House Committee on Children and Famlies.
Bill Sponsor:
Don.Phillips@house.mo.gov
House Children and Families Committee Members:
Diane.Franklin@house.mo.gov (Chair)
Susan.Meredith@house.mo.gov (Ranking Minority Member)
Jim.Neely@house.mo.gov (Vice Chair)
Nathan.Beard@house.mo.gov
Rick.Brattin@house.mo.gov
Cloria.Brown@house.mo.gov
Elaine.Gannon@house.mo.gov
Marsha.Haefner@house.mo.gov
Jeanie.Lauer@house.mo.gov
Stacey.Newman@house.mo.gov
Charlie.Norr@house.mo.gov
Tim.Remole@house.mo.gov
Quick list with commas (please post in bbc)
Don.Phillips@house.mo.gov, Diane.Franklin@house.mo.gov, Susan.Meredith@house.mo.gov, Jim.Neely@house.mo.gov, Nathan.Beard@house.mo.gov, Rick.Brattin@house.mo.gov, Cloria.Brown@house.mo.gov, Elaine.Gannon@house.mo.gov, Marsha.Haefner@house.mo.gov, Jeanie.Lauer@house.mo.gov, Stacey.Newman@house.mo.gov, Charlie.Norr@house.mo.gov, Tim.Remole@house.mo.gov
- Don Phillips
- Diane Franklin
- Susan Meredith
- Rick Brattin
- Elaine Gannon
- Marsha Haefner
- Stacey Newman
- Tim Remole
Twitter:
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New York Adoptee Rights Coalition
I left messages on five of the eight committee members. The other three did not accept the message easily.
I said:
Let the “Show Me State” show the United States that all are equal. My husband and I are adult adoptee born in Illinois and Michigan and neither of us have the ability to receive our OBC. Both of us have found our birth families and I have my birthmother’s 1919 birth certificate and I am listed on her death certificate as her daughter. The era of lies is over.
Do the right thing and please vote YES for HB 1599, as written without restriction. Missouri adoptees should be treated the same as the not adopted. Missouri can step up and show Michigan, Illinois and our nation, that lies don’t help they only hurt.
Good Luck to all of us!
Thanks so much, Good letter. Can you tell me which addys didn’t work? You never know if they’re right until you try to send something and they bounce. I can check them.
Thank you for your help in getting all the stuff in one area, Marley. I have my dog in this fight. I am so upset by Missouri and the corruption and the idiocy: seriously, an article interviewed ONE (1) CI who said that 40-50% of birth mothers do not want to be found. I wanted to scream with anger, but funneled it into my tweet and a letter. The CIs simply want to keep their cash cow. I hate them.
Mirren
I saw that. Absolutely a statemeent. Her econimic livelihood is at stake.