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

[Linda Wiley]

I think we need to flood the speaker's email box!  My representative's office replied they didn't have knowledge of the bill and thanked me for telling them about it.  I also mentioned medical family research.

Linda Wiley


 



________________________________
 From: Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>
To: OR-ROOTS <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:21 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Fwd: RE: House Bill 2093
 

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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