Bill Text: TX SB545 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB545-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 545 |
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relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital | ||
statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 191, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 191.011 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 191.011. DEATH INFORMATION PROVIDED TO SECRETARY OF | ||
STATE. (a) The department shall implement an efficient and | ||
effective method to provide death information to the secretary of | ||
state to assist in maintaining the statewide computerized voter | ||
registration list under Section 18.061, Election Code. | ||
(b) The method implemented under Subsection (a) must | ||
provide at least the following information on each deceased person | ||
for whom a death certificate is filed with a local registrar in this | ||
state: | ||
(1) the county of residence of the deceased; | ||
(2) the date of birth of the deceased; and | ||
(3) the full name of the deceased. | ||
(c) The department shall enter into a memorandum of | ||
understanding with the secretary of state to implement this | ||
section. The memorandum of understanding must include a mechanism | ||
for the department to provide the secretary of state with death | ||
information that includes unique identifiers necessary to | ||
accurately match death records with names included on the voter | ||
registration list. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) The department shall require death certificates to | ||
include the county where the decedent died and the decedent's | ||
county of last legal residence. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 16.001(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Once each week, on a day specified by the secretary of | ||
state, the vital statistics unit [ |
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furnish to the secretary of state available information [ |
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provided by Section 191.011, Health and Safety Code, in the form and | ||
manner specified by the secretary. Periodically, the secretary | ||
shall furnish to the appropriate voter registrars information | ||
obtained from the unit [ |
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deceased registered voters of each county. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 545 passed the Senate on | ||
April 3, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 545 passed the House on | ||
May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |