If you're in one of those states with bills requiring presidential eligibility proof on file still alive in their legislatures, I encourage you to write, call, email your state representatives.
The Connecticut bill is weak at best. It doesn't take into account not all states necessarily have the same definition of "original birth certificate". For example, the state of Hawaii defines a birth certificate as either a Certificate of Live Birth(original birth certificate) or a Certification of Live Birth(COLB). The former is the long form birth certificate providing more detail for genealogy purposes. The latter is a short form document containing less information. The state of Hawaii website
http://hawaii.gov/dhhl/applicants/appforms/applyhhl explains the details of both. An example of the COLB issued by the state of Hawaii is a copy of Barack Obama's COLB http://www.theobamafile.com/_images/ObamaBirthCertificate.jpg. Note, it does not include the hospital where the person was born nor the signature of the attending physician. Other states may have similar laws. The state of Hawaii no longer issues copies of the original birth certificate, Certificate of Live Birth. Instead Hawaii only issues copies of the short form COLB. More importantly the state of Hawaii issues COLB's to foreign born children.
SB391 also does not define "natural born citizen" as a person born in the U.S. to parents who are American citizens.
Thanks for those details on CT SB391 and the ambiguity in specifying "original birth certificate" in the bill.
I collected the information as a starting point for people in those states to pursue the bills since I'm in CA and noticed a theme in press coverage. The press stories have been generally mocking and devoid of leads to even locate the bills.
One of the things irritating me most about our "free press" is how it'll waste 1,000 words on a specific piece of legislation's introduction but never mentioned the name of the bill or its number. Sometimes they don't even name the author/sponsor yet make sure to editorialize and highlight what opponents say.
A bill title/number is basic information that should appear in any news article about a piece of legislation particularly at a time in technology when the writer (or editor) could cite the bill itself with a hyperlink to published form or status at the state's website.
You can tell by the holes in my prior post that I'm still trying to find some of the bills I've seen mentioned or hinted at in articles.