Monday, December 12, 2016

SB 714, 2013 OBC ACCESS BILL "I don't understand the need...Is this for Financial Reasons?"

http://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=9&clip_id=810

Start at 51:00 for Senator Lucio explaining the bill, (2013's bill was only in the case that the birth parents were dead). Go to 54:40 for Senator Campbell's comments about "financial reasons."
Senator Campbell's respsonse, "Which adoptees [want access]? Where?"

57:00 for Witness testimony by Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, Shirley Dodson &
TX Adoptee Reunion Services, Connie Gray.

2013 Companion House Bill 1014 by representative Susan King.