Bill Text: TX HR366 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Resolution 366

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Bill Title: Recognizing March 21, 2023, as Texas Adoptee Rights Day at the State Capitol.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-16 - Reported enrolled [HR366 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HR366-Introduced.html

	88R14682 CJM-D

	By: Harris of Anderson	H.R. No. 366



	R E S O L U T I O N
	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.