Dear Advocates for Ethical Adoption Practice in New Mexico:
HB 125 and HB 158 got a “do pass” 2/10/11 from the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee whose members have told us that hundreds of you contacted them. Thank you for all your thoughtful comments to this committee. Some pasted pictures of their children into their emails. Others spoke passionately of how important it was to them that the birth parents are supported in an ethical, fully legal process. Adoption professionals spoke of the ethical challenges they have experienced with predatory adoption. Thank you again for your commitment, passion & action necessary to make these bills become law in New Mexico.
The bills will be scheduled in HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE and may be be heard next week Wed 2/16/11 or Friday 2/18/11. Judiciary is a big committe and can be challenging. We seriously need your calls and emails. If we get a “do pass” from Judiciary then our bills go before the full House for a vote. If approved they will then be passed over into the Senate where they will be assigned to at least one committee (probably Senate Judiciary).
RECAP OF THE PROBLEM Over the last ten years, adoption in New Mexico has fallen prey to profit-driven, out of state adoption businesses not licensed here. NM licensed professionals and vulnerable residents involved in an adoption process often face a serious crisis. These Predatory adoption businesses attract unsuspecting birth parents and adoptive parents to them through large-scale advertising. They provide informal but costly adoption services for months. They wait until the last moment to contact NM licensed professionals to furnish the minimum legally required adoption service. With much hanging in the balance, we discover that those we represent may have been misinformed of the facts involved in their adoption, and their rights and requirements in a New Mexico adoption process during a most emotionally vulnerable time.
HB125 (Adoption Services) expands the definition of adoption service and requires NM licensure for those who provide those services within our state. It would also require an accounting to and approval from a NM Court for disbursements paid on behalf of an adoption before a NM child may be moved to another state, (provides more jurisdiction). It also provides for more penalties for violators.
HB 158 (Adoption Advertising) would require that out of state adoption businesses not licensed or permitted to provide adoption services here to say so in their advertisements. The public is not able to determine who is a legitimate adoption service provider in this advertising. It also provides for more penalties for violators.
Please take 15 minutes out of the next few days to contact House Judiciary members. Ask them to vote YES on HB 125 (adoption services) and HB158 (adoption advertising). Please use your own words, pictures or whatever. Include your name and your address. Help us close legal loop-holes used by predatory adoption businesses in New Mexico. Restore ethical practice in adoption
1) Call Representative Al Park’s office at 505 986-4411. Thank him for sponsoring HB125 and HB158 and the awesome job he did advocating for our legislation before the committee.
To see the full legislation go to http://www.nmlegis.gov/
2) Call or email the 15 members of House Judiciary (below) by Wed Feb 16th noon. Ask them to VOTE YES on House Bills HB125 -Adoption Services and HB158 -Adoption Advertising.
HOUSE JUDICIARY
Meets Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays - 1:30 p.m. - Room 309
Name of Representative / Role / District / County/ Capitol Phone / Email
Al Park, Chair & sponsor of HB 125 & HB 158
26/Bernalillo
505-986-4413
Alpark.nm@gmail.com
Joseph Cervantes, Vice Chair
52/Dona Ana
505-986-4234
joseph@cervanteslaw.com
Eliseo Lee Alcon, Member
6/Cibola & McKinley
505-986-4243
eliseoalcon@msn.com
Paul C. Bandy, Member
3/San Juan
505-986-4248
paul@paulbandy.org
Cathrynn Brown, Member
55/Eddy
505-986-4211
Brown55@windstream.net
Gail Chasey, Member
18/Bernalillo
505-986-2221
gailchasey@msn.com
David Chavez, Member
7/Valencia
505-986-4451
david@davidchavez.com
Zachary J. Cook, Member
56/Lincoln & Otero
505-986-4454
zachjcook@gmail.com
David L. Doyle,Member
23/Bernalillo & Sandoval
505-986-4249
ddoyle@ebnm.com
Brian F. Egolf, Member
47/Santa Fe
505-986-9641
brian@brianegolf.com
Nate Gentry, Member
30/Bernalillo
505-986-4249
natefornm@gmail.com
Antonio “Moe” Maestas, Member
16/Bernalillo
505-986-4233
Rep16@moejustice.com
Bill B. O’Neill, Member
15/Bernalillo
505-986-4464
oneillhd15@fastmail.us
William “Bill” R. Rehm, Member
31/Bernalillo
505-986-4248
Bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov
Mimi Stewart, Member
21/Bernalillo
505-986-4344
mstewart@osogrande.com
Christain Child Placement Service
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/
1-800-553-2229 (BABY) ex.14 24/7
e-mail: adopt@nmcch.org
HB 125 and HB 158 got a “do pass” 2/10/11 from the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee whose members have told us that hundreds of you contacted them. Thank you for all your thoughtful comments to this committee. Some pasted pictures of their children into their emails. Others spoke passionately of how important it was to them that the birth parents are supported in an ethical, fully legal process. Adoption professionals spoke of the ethical challenges they have experienced with predatory adoption. Thank you again for your commitment, passion & action necessary to make these bills become law in New Mexico.
The bills will be scheduled in HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE and may be be heard next week Wed 2/16/11 or Friday 2/18/11. Judiciary is a big committe and can be challenging. We seriously need your calls and emails. If we get a “do pass” from Judiciary then our bills go before the full House for a vote. If approved they will then be passed over into the Senate where they will be assigned to at least one committee (probably Senate Judiciary).
RECAP OF THE PROBLEM Over the last ten years, adoption in New Mexico has fallen prey to profit-driven, out of state adoption businesses not licensed here. NM licensed professionals and vulnerable residents involved in an adoption process often face a serious crisis. These Predatory adoption businesses attract unsuspecting birth parents and adoptive parents to them through large-scale advertising. They provide informal but costly adoption services for months. They wait until the last moment to contact NM licensed professionals to furnish the minimum legally required adoption service. With much hanging in the balance, we discover that those we represent may have been misinformed of the facts involved in their adoption, and their rights and requirements in a New Mexico adoption process during a most emotionally vulnerable time.
HB125 (Adoption Services) expands the definition of adoption service and requires NM licensure for those who provide those services within our state. It would also require an accounting to and approval from a NM Court for disbursements paid on behalf of an adoption before a NM child may be moved to another state, (provides more jurisdiction). It also provides for more penalties for violators.
HB 158 (Adoption Advertising) would require that out of state adoption businesses not licensed or permitted to provide adoption services here to say so in their advertisements. The public is not able to determine who is a legitimate adoption service provider in this advertising. It also provides for more penalties for violators.
Please take 15 minutes out of the next few days to contact House Judiciary members. Ask them to vote YES on HB 125 (adoption services) and HB158 (adoption advertising). Please use your own words, pictures or whatever. Include your name and your address. Help us close legal loop-holes used by predatory adoption businesses in New Mexico. Restore ethical practice in adoption
1) Call Representative Al Park’s office at 505 986-4411. Thank him for sponsoring HB125 and HB158 and the awesome job he did advocating for our legislation before the committee.
To see the full legislation go to http://www.nmlegis.gov/
2) Call or email the 15 members of House Judiciary (below) by Wed Feb 16th noon. Ask them to VOTE YES on House Bills HB125 -Adoption Services and HB158 -Adoption Advertising.
HOUSE JUDICIARY
Meets Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays - 1:30 p.m. - Room 309
Name of Representative / Role / District / County/ Capitol Phone / Email
Al Park, Chair & sponsor of HB 125 & HB 158
26/Bernalillo
505-986-4413
Alpark.nm@gmail.com
Joseph Cervantes, Vice Chair
52/Dona Ana
505-986-4234
joseph@cervanteslaw.com
Eliseo Lee Alcon, Member
6/Cibola & McKinley
505-986-4243
eliseoalcon@msn.com
Paul C. Bandy, Member
3/San Juan
505-986-4248
paul@paulbandy.org
Cathrynn Brown, Member
55/Eddy
505-986-4211
Brown55@windstream.net
Gail Chasey, Member
18/Bernalillo
505-986-2221
gailchasey@msn.com
David Chavez, Member
7/Valencia
505-986-4451
david@davidchavez.com
Zachary J. Cook, Member
56/Lincoln & Otero
505-986-4454
zachjcook@gmail.com
David L. Doyle,Member
23/Bernalillo & Sandoval
505-986-4249
ddoyle@ebnm.com
Brian F. Egolf, Member
47/Santa Fe
505-986-9641
brian@brianegolf.com
Nate Gentry, Member
30/Bernalillo
505-986-4249
natefornm@gmail.com
Antonio “Moe” Maestas, Member
16/Bernalillo
505-986-4233
Rep16@moejustice.com
Bill B. O’Neill, Member
15/Bernalillo
505-986-4464
oneillhd15@fastmail.us
William “Bill” R. Rehm, Member
31/Bernalillo
505-986-4248
Bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov
Mimi Stewart, Member
21/Bernalillo
505-986-4344
mstewart@osogrande.com
Christain Child Placement Service
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/
1-800-553-2229 (BABY) ex.14 24/7
e-mail: adopt@nmcch.org
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