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| IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM
JOYCE BAHR, NYSAR PRESIDENT Contact your legislators in
their District Offices. To learn who your state assembly member and There are
62 state senators. One way to find out who your senator is is by logging We now have 70 assembly sponsors. Although we have only 11 in the senate, we are very hopeful for the future. With more interest and more of us committed to lobby in Albany next session, we are determined to win. A written letter (snail mail)
is of more importance with many legislators. However, some value emails. If your email
does not get through, go to SEARCH and type in the name of the legislator for access to
their website, as many have their own sites. Then send an email from the site. Be sure to
include your address and phone number in your mail. Senator Velmanette Montgomery Write the Governor to
Pass Bills A8410 and S5269 Ask the Senate Majority leader to Pass Bill S5269 Senator Malcolm A. Smith Important! Write to the Speaker asking him for a vote on A8410
by the Full Assembly. Ask these Senators to co-sponsor and move S5269 to the floor for a vote Senator Antoine Thompson Albany, NY 12247 fax: 518 426-6969 Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins LOB 805 Albany, NY 12247 Fax: 518 426-6811 Senator David Valesky Room 416 Capitol Albany, NY 12247 Fax: 518 426-6885 Senator Jeffrey Klein Room 427 Capitol Albany, NY 12247 Fax: 518 426-6847 Senator Jose Serrano LOB 848 Albany, NY 12247 Fax: 518 426-6886 Senator TobyAnn Stavisky LOB 509 Albany, NY 12247 Fax: 518 426-6857 Other Adoption Related Bills we Support How to compose an email message in mere seconds! 1) “Click and drag” to highlight the Sample Letter text below (please note there are two Sample Letters below - one for Assembly members and one for Senators). Select “Edit, Copy” on your browser menu (this will place the Sample Letter text temporarily onto the Clipboard). 2) Click on the “email address link” for a legislator from the list below. Doing so should automatically launch your email package, and insert the legislator’s email address into the “To” field. 3) Click in the “Body” area of your email message, and then select “Edit, Paste” from the menu. 4) Lastly, just make the necessary customizations that are in blue text below (i.e. the legislator name, your telephone number, and your name and address). 5) Click on “Send”! ********* Sample Assembly Letter ********* Dear Assemblyperson Bacalles (fill in the appropriate name), Pass bill A8410 the Bill of Adoptee Rights. Give tax paying citizens the right to their original birth certificates. Data coming from states that have opened records in recent years indicates that very few birth parents want confidentiality. Many birth mothers will tell you that they were not promised confidentiality. Others will tell you they were told they would have confidentiality even though they never wanted it. Why should mothers and fathers who never raised a child prevent that child who is now an adult from access to an original birth certificate? Why should any parent prevent an adult from their birth right? The sealed record law is unfair, outdated and discriminatory. Although thousands of adoptees have searched and have reunions that work and most citizens believe adoptees should have this right, there are some non-adopted persons who want to deny adoptees this right. Do these non-adopted persons take for granted access to their birth certificates? It is disrespectful to the dignity of an adopted person to have their birth certificates sealed and hidden from them. Bill A8410 gives birth parents the option of stating they want “No Contact”. This bill is fair to all. Now is the time to change the unfair, outdated and discriminatory law that seals records. Pass this bill and bring the law up to date with norms accepted in today’s world. Please contact me at (XXX) XXX-XXXX (please fill in your phone number) if you have any questions. Sincerely, (Please provide your name and address so they will know which District you live in) ********* End of Sample Assembly Letter ********* New York Senate Bill S5269 is sponsored by Senator Velmanette Montgomery. The Bill is in the Health Committee and it mirrors the Assembly Bill. ********* Sample Senator Letter ********* Honorable Senator Hannon (fill in the appropriate name), Pass bill A8410 the Bill of Adoptee Rights. Give tax paying citizens the right to their original birth certificates. Data coming from states that have opened records in recent years indicates that very few birth parents want confidentiality. Many birth mothers will tell you that they were not promised confidentiality. Others will tell you they were told they would have confidentiality even though they never wanted it. Why should mothers and fathers who never raised a child prevent that child who is now an adult from access to an original birth certificate? Why should any parent prevent an adult from their birth right? The sealed record law is unfair, outdated and discriminatory. Although thousands of adoptees have searched and have reunions that work and most citizens believe adoptees should have this right, there are some non-adopted persons who want to deny adoptees this right. Do these non-adopted persons take for granted access to their birth certificates? It is disrespectful to the dignity of an adopted person to have their birth certificates sealed and hidden from them. Bill S235 gives birth parents the option of stating they want “No Contact”. This bill is fair to all. Now is the time to change the unfair, outdated and discriminatory law that seals records. Pass this bill and bring the law up to date with norms accepted in today's world. Please contact me at (XXX) XXX-XXXX (please fill in your phone number) if you have any questions. Sincerely, (Please provide your name and address so they will know which District you live in) ********* End of Sample Senator Letter *********
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