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Update! Health Committee + Press Conference

April 26, 2019 By New York Adoptee Rights Coalition

Big news. The Assembly Health Committee will consider A5494 on Tuesday, April 30, at 1:00pm, the latest step in getting the Weprin/Montgomery bill enacted this session. The Assembly bill, which has 90 sponsors including Assemblyman David Weprin, is expected to be reported favorably out of committee. A press conference with NYARC representatives and New York Assembly members will follow immediately in the Capitol. And you are invited. Here are details:

Assembly Health Committee

Health Committee, Chaired by Richard N. Gottfried
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Legislative Office Building, Room 823

Press Conference

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Time: 2:30pm or as soon after the conclusion of the Health Committee meeting
Location: Assembly Staircase on the 3rd Floor of the Capitol
Details available on NYARC’s Event Page on Facebook

Support the one adoptees rights bill in the New York Senate and Assembly that has broad and unequivocal support.

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  1. Katherine F Trumbaturi says

    April 27, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    I want so badly to see my original birth certificate. I am 75 and still looking for birth info.!!!

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The following organizations, while not core partners, support the work of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition.

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  • Canada Open Records
  • Concerned United Birthparents
  • Equality for Adoptees
  • Indiana Open
  • Italiadoption
  • Know Your Own
  • Michigan Open Records
  • Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform
  • Missouri Open
  • National Center on Adoption and Permanency
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
  • Nevada Open
  • Post Adoption Center for Education & Resources (PACER)

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