IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ ALL.
(I apologize to those of you who may be getting this more than once. I thought it
important enough to send on to some whom I wasn't sure were on the email list.)
Shirley
Indiana
----- Original Message -----
From: Rex Bertram
To: INJAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:47 PM
Subject: [INJAY] Fw: IN House Bill 1540 - Birth and Death Records
This concerns us all. Read below.
Rex Bertram
Jay County Indiana Webpage co-ordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~injay/
----- Original Message -----
From: Darburns(a)aol.com
To: INJAY-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:29 PM
Subject: IN House Bill 1540 - Birth and Death Records
I am sending this to you to get the word out about proposed legislation in Indiana
concerning Birth and Death Records. Would it be possible for you to send this to people on
your mail list or to people you know that do genealogy in Indiana? I would really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Darlene Anderson
IGS East Central District Director
Henry County INGENWEB
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There is proposed legislation to prohibit public access to vital records for the state of
Indiana! House Bill (HB) 1540 can be read online at
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2003/IN/IN1540.1.html Some of the language in HB 1540
is:
"h. When one hundred (100) years has elapsed after the date of birth, the records of
those events in the custody of the state or local registrar shall become available to the
public....." There is much more to read concerning HB 1540.
Have I gotten your attention yet? I sure hope so and I hope that each and every one of us
contacts our legislators about this. We've got to contact our legistatures immediately
telling them of our opposition regarding HB 1540 as genealogists and family historians.
Please read on:
In this morning's Indianapolis Star in Section B City & State on page 3, House
Bill 1540 is listed for Hearing on Wednesday morning at 10:30 from the Public Health
Committee. Our emails and phone calls to legislators will need to start immediately with
follow up letters in the mail on Monday!
Express your opposition to proposed HB 1540 adopting new privacy standards for
Indiana's public vital records!
Even if you live outside the state of Indiana you may be affected by this HB. This applies
to all of us - If we, at some point, wish to become a member of an organization that
requires us to prove our lineage and HB 1540 becomes a law we will not have access to
birth or death records to do this. Our desire to become a members of any organization
that requires us to prove our lineage may be in jeopardy! Please contact the persons that
have authored this proposed legislature. The site where you can find email address for IN
Representatives is
http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl
We are all concerned about identity theft. The state of Indiana requires information from
us that should safeguard the issues of theft identity. Please contact your representatives
by email, phone and follow-up with a letter.
Thank you for reading this email.
Darlene Anderson
IGS East Central District Director
Henry County INGENWEB
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