On February 11, 2025, Alec Ferretti, a Director at the Association of Professional Genealogists and D. Joshua Taylor, President & CEO of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, provided testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2025 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic Health/Medicaid. The testimony starts at about 8:58:00 into the video. There are questions for both speakers that start at 9:18:30 (interspersed with questions for the other panelists, not relating to genealogy.)
View full letter to New York State Legislators at https://www.apgen.org/docs/APG_Written_Testimony_Re_NY_Vital_Records_31_Jan_2025.pdf
Call for Action Regarding Access to New York State Vital Records: https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/blog/call-action-regarding-access-new-york-state-vital-records