Assembly bill A9959B has passed out of the Health Committee and is now in the Codes Committee, which is chaired by Joe Lentol. At least eight members of the Codes Committee are also on record as supporting A9959B, including primary sponsor David I. Weprin. But we need your help urgently to get other assembly members behind the bill and to the Assembly floor for a vote.
Contact Codes Committee Members
Please email or call your assembly member today. You can find your assembly member here, but you can also contact the assembly members we list below (they are on the Codes Committee). We suggest the following message, which you can modify to include your own message or personal circumstances. Our advice is always to be concise and respectful.
Dear Assembly Member [Last Name]:
I am a New York resident and voter. I strongly support A9959B, an adoptee rights bill that will finally restore equality to adult adoptees in New York. I ask you to do two things:
1) vote DO PASS on A9959B when it comes up for consideration in the Codes Committee.
2) if you are not already a co-sponsor, add your name as a co-sponsor of A9959B;
This is a very important issue to me and to hundreds of thousands of adoptees and New Yorkers. There are already twenty co-sponsors to this bill and has wide bi-partisan support. Please let me know your position on this issue as well as your response to my two requests.
Thank you,
Codes Committee Contacts
Brian Curran (District 21)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4656
District Phone: 516-561-8216
Twitter: @BrianCurranNY
Facebook: Brian Curran
Patricia Fahy (District 109)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4178
District Phone:
Twitter: @PatriciaFahy109
Facebook: Patricia Fahy
Andrew Garbarino (District 7)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4611
District Phone: 631-589-0348
Facebook: Andrew Garbarino
Joseph Giglio (District 148)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5241
District Phone: 716-373-7103
Joseph Lentol (District 50)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4477
District Phone: 718-383-7474
Twitter: @assemblymanjoe
Michael Montesano (District 15)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4684
District Phone: 516-937-3571
Twitter: @AsmMontesano
Facebook: Michael Montesano
Angelo Morinello (District 145)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5284
District Phone: 716-282-6062
Twitter: @VoteJudgeAngelo
Facebook: Angelo Morinello
Walter T. Mosley (District 57)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5325
District Phone: 718-596-0100
Twitter: @WalterTMosley
Facebook: Walter T. Mosley
Daniel J. O’Donnell (District 69)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5603
District Phone: 212-866-3970
Twitter: @DanielJODonnell
Anthony H. Palumbo (District 2)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5294
District Phone: 631-727-0204
Twitter: @AnthonyHPalumbo
Facebook: Anthony H. Palumbo
N. Nick Perry (District 58)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4166
District Phone: 718-385-3336
Twitter: @NNickPerry
J. Gary Pretlow (District 89)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5291
District Phone: 914-667-0127
Twitter: @JGPretlow
Michele R. Titus (District 31)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5668
District Phone: 718-327-1845
Facebook: Michele R. Titus
Kenneth Zebrowski (District 96)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5735
District Phone: 845-634-9791
Twitter: @kenzebrowski_ny
The following Code Committee members already support or are co-sponsors of A9959B
David I. Weprin (District 24) (primary sponsor)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5806
District Phone: 718-454-3027
Twitter: @DavidWeprin
Facebook: David I. Weprin
Vivian Cook (District 32) (co-sponsor)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4203
District Phone: 718-322-3975
Robin Schimminger (District 140) (co-sponsor)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4767
District Phone: 716-873-2540
Twitter: @RSchimminger
Facebook: Robin Schimminger
Rebecca A. Seawright (District 76) (co-sponsor)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5676
District Phone: 212-288-4607
Twitter: @Rebecca76AD
Facebook: Rebecca A. Seawright
Thomas Abinanti (District 92) (voted DO PASS in Health Committee)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5753
District Phone: 914-631-1605
Twitter: @TomAbinanti
Facebook: Thomas Abinanti
Steven Cymbrowitz (District 45) (voted DO PASS in Health Committee)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5214
District Phone: 718-743-4078
Twitter: @SteveCym
Facebook: Steven Cymbrowitz
Andrew Hevesi (District 28) (voted DO PASS in Health Committee)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-4926
District Phone: 718-263-5595
Twitter: @AndrewHevesi
Charles Lavine (District 13) (voted DO PASS in Health Committee)
Email: [email protected]
Albany Phone: 518-455-5456
District Phone: 516-676-0050
Twitter: @Charles_Lavine
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I strongly believe that my right and others as a adoptee should get our original birth certificate because of the way my adopted mom and dad are dead and took this secret to their Graves I was already hurt in my heart finding out I was adopted as a baby through Surrogate Court by the private office and adopted mom and dad and hurt by my adopted mom and dad never telling me what happened in my past life and not telling me I have a birth mom and sister and then when you pay the adoption office for some information about your birth but don’t get all the information when your birth certificate has been sealed and go to your adopted parents to find out more information what happened when you was born and then your adopted parents lie right to my face is really hate secrets especially when it comes from your parents about what happened in my adopted life