[Home-on-the-Range] Legislative alert, call to action on senate bill 343

[Don Mulik]

Rob, I don’t know what you mean by the term “Guar Foster care.”
Please clarify. Thanks.

Don Mulik

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:53 PM Rob Tabor via Home-on-the-Range <
home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Good evening fellow NFBK advocates,
>
> We are almost at the finish line. We have but one step left to go to bring
> our blind parents Bill of Rights into reality and onto the statute books of
> Kansas. We now need to contact Governor Kelly and ask her to sign the bill.
> If you are confused by the change of numbers, this is because senate bill
> 276 was merged onto senate bill 343 during a house senate conference
> committee process on April 1.
>
> To reach Governor Kelly’s office by phone, call (785) 368-8500. Then dial
> 6 to connect you to a staff member. You may opt to send an email to the
> governor at
> govevents at ks.gov
> Be sure too mention SB 383 in the subject line. In your message, whether
> by phone or by email, you might say something similar to the following
>
> My name is ____, from ____ Kansas, and I am urgently requesting the
> governor to sign senate bill 343 which passed unanimously in both the
> Senate and the house. This bill will give Blind parents in Kansas the tools
> and procedural safeguards we need to combat discrimination in domestic
> court cases, juvenile court matters, Guar Foster care, guardianship, and
> public and private adoptions. Parents in Kansas and elsewhere have lost
> their children or have had a threat of losing their children simply because
> they are blind and not because of actual capabilities. I will be very
> grateful if the governor signs Senate bill 343.
>
> Sincerely,
> Name, address, city, state, ZIP Code
> Though we know of no reason why the governor would veto the bill, it is
> best to leave nothing to chance. Thanks to everyone who has pitched in and
> advocated for the bill up to now.
>
> Best regards,
> Rob Tabor | first vice president/legislative Director national Federation
> of the blind of Kansas
> (785) 865-9959
> Rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net
>
>
>
>
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