Bill Text: TX HB1823 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to properly recorded diacritical marks in vital statistics records, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and personal identification certificates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1823 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1823-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1823 |
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relating to properly recorded diacritical marks in vital statistics | ||
records, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and | ||
personal identification certificates. | ||
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 191.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 191.009. USE OF DIACRITICAL MARKS. (a) In this | ||
section, "diacritical mark" means a mark used in Latin script to | ||
change the sound of the letter to which it is added or used to | ||
distinguish the meaning of the word in which the letter appears. | ||
The term includes accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, and cedillas. | ||
(b) The state registrar shall ensure that a vital statistics | ||
record issued under this title properly records any diacritical | ||
mark used in a person's name. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 521.127 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.127. USE OF DIACRITICAL MARKS. (a) In this | ||
section, "diacritical mark" means a mark used in Latin script to | ||
change the sound of a letter to which it is added or used to | ||
distinguish the meaning of the word in which the letter appears. | ||
The term includes accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, and cedillas. | ||
(b) The department shall ensure that an original or renewal | ||
driver's license or personal identification certificate issued | ||
under this chapter properly records any diacritical mark used in a | ||
person's name. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 522.030, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) The department shall ensure that an original or renewal | ||
commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit issued | ||
under this chapter properly records any diacritical mark used in a | ||
person's name. In this subsection, "diacritical mark" means a mark | ||
used in Latin script to change the sound of a letter to which it is | ||
added or used to distinguish the meaning of the word in which the | ||
letter appears. The term includes accents, tildes, graves, | ||
umlauts, and cedillas. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a vital statistics record issued by the Department of State | ||
Health Services vital statistics unit or a driver's license, | ||
personal identification certificate, or commercial driver's | ||
license or learner's permit issued or renewed by the Texas | ||
Department of Public Safety on or after January 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1823 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 1823 on May 26, 2017, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 1823 on May 28, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 130, | ||
Nays 14, 2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1823 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
1823 on May 28, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |