I would love to hear that this is a false alarm, but in case it’s not, I'd like to encourage folks -- especially anyone with NJ roots or residency -- to do whatever they can about this potential restriction of NJ vital records access:
Bill would restrict access to records
Here’s a relevant article that Dick Eastman wrote that might be used to help educate Quigley and others:
So Why Lock Up the Birth Records?
And this might also be useful. Folks trying to gain greater access to records in PA have created this site to get across the message that many states are actually making access to records easier, even to the point of making digitized, searchable records available online (often for free):