[or-roots] Fwd: RE: House Bill 2093

[Sue Steward]

This is a response to the e-mail I sent to the speaker of the House.  As 
has already been mentioned, she indicates it is the Governor's office 
that requested it.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: House Bill 2093
Date: 	Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:59:55 +0000
From: 	Rep Kotek <rep.tinakotek at state.or.us>
To: 	Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>



Harold and Sue,

Thank you for e-mailing Speaker Kotek in regard to HB 2093. *The 
Governor's Office requested the bill and it is currently in the House 
Committee on Health Care. The Speaker's Office has also referred it to 
the Ways and Means Committee, due to the fiscal impact you cited. 
Speaker Kotek's office appreciates your comments and will take them into 
account as the discussion unfolds. *

Thank you.

Hannah Fisher, Legislative Assistant

State Representative Tina Kotek

Speaker of the House

North/NE Portland, House District 44

(503) 286-0558 District | (503) 986-1444 Salem

900 Court Street NE, H-296

Salem, OR 97301

rep.tinakotek at state.or.us

*From:*Sue Steward [mailto:ssteward at ccountry.net]
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:32 PM
*To:* Rep Esquivel; Rep Richardson; Rep Kotek; Rep McLane
*Subject:* House Bill 2093

As an individual/family very interested in genealogy I participate in 
OR-Roots genealogical list.  Through this list we've been made aware of 
House Bill 2093.

http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2093.intro.pdf

Our most important concern is the feature that it appears to seek adding 
25 years to the period of time which the general public cannot access 
vital statistics. I understand that many people may see this as 
strengthening safeguards against identity theft and creation of phony 
identification. In reality all it will accomplish is making life more 
difficult for we in the genealogical community and have little or no 
effect on those intended consequences.

For a fee you can have a subscription/membership to a web service that 
pretty much gives you access to the vital records of anyone I want 
information on, the more recent the information I want the better.  In 
many states this service provides actual copies of documents. So if the 
intent is to protect identification, it is a case of closing the barn 
door after the horse is gone.

A further objection is that it appears to be creating a new level of 
State government at a time when we can't pay for what we have. If there 
are changes that genuinely need to be made in records keeping, they 
should be administratively handled within our current vital statistics 
organization.

Yours respectfully,
Harold E. & Nelda S Steward
2605 Samoan Way
Medford, OR  97504



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