Bill Text: TX HB1952 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth certificate and prohibited change of sex on the birth certificate of certain minors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1952-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth certificate and prohibited change of sex on the birth certificate of certain minors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1952-Introduced.html
88R9436 EAS-D | ||
By: Toth | H.B. No. 1952 |
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relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth | ||
certificate. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 192.002, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) The form must include a space for recording the | ||
biological sex of a child as either male or female. A child born | ||
with a Y chromosome must be classified as male and a child born | ||
without a Y chromosome must be classified as female. The method of | ||
classifying a child's biological sex used under this section | ||
applies to other laws of this state with respect to the | ||
determination of a person's sex or gender. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |