Bill Text: TX HB1829 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1829 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Public Health [HB1829 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1829-Introduced.html



	By: Martinez Fischer	H.B. No. 1829



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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. Section 191.009, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended 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, apostrophes, 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.