Bill Text: TX HR366 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing March 21, 2023, as Texas Adoptee Rights Day at the State Capitol.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-16 - Reported enrolled [HR366 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR366-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 366 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Members of Support Texas Adoptee Rights (STAR) are | ||
| gathering in Austin on March 21, 2023, for Texas Adoptee Rights Day | ||
| at the State Capitol; and | ||
| WHEREAS, A nonprofit organization, STAR is dedicated to | ||
| raising awareness of the unique challenges that adult adoptees face | ||
| in accessing their own information; through education and | ||
| legislative reform, the group works tirelessly to ensure that | ||
| adults in Texas who were adopted receive equal treatment under the | ||
| law and have access to their family health history and personal | ||
| identity information, including their original birth certificates; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, The organization represents the interests of all | ||
| three parties involved in the adoption process--adult adoptees, | ||
| birth parents, and adoptive parents--and its members include | ||
| residents of 254 Texas counties as well as adoptees from out of | ||
| state whose births and adoptions occurred in Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, STAR is helping to rectify the unintended | ||
| consequences of past adoption practices in Texas and to create a | ||
| more transparent, just, and humane adoption system for the future; | ||
| now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby recognize March 21, 2023, as Texas Adoptee | ||
| Rights Day at the State Capitol and extend to the organization | ||
| sincere best wishes for continued success with its important work. | ||
| Harris of Anderson | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 366 was adopted by the House on March | ||
| 16, 2023, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
