Bill Text: TX HB39 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to information and data regarding the incidence of veteran deaths in this state.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB39 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB39-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 39

AN ACT
relating to information and data regarding the incidence of veteran
deaths in this state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 193.006, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
read as follows:
(d) When the death certificate of a person to which this
section applies is filed with the vital statistics unit, the
department [state registrar] shall submit to [notify] the Texas
Veterans Commission deidentified information on the person's:
(1) manner of death, only if the death was by suicide
or homicide;
(2) age;
(3) race;
(4) sex; and
(5) occupation.
(e) Not later than December 1 of each year, the Texas
Veterans Commission shall prepare and submit to the governor,
lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and
standing committees of the legislature with primary jurisdiction
over veterans affairs and publish on the commission's Internet
website a written report that contains:
(1) aggregated data based on the information the
commission receives under Subsection (d) for the preceding year;
(2) an evaluation of that data; and
(3) any recommendations for legislative or other
action.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2027, the Texas
Veterans Commission shall prepare and submit the initial report
required by Section 193.006(e), Health and Safety Code, as added by
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 39 was passed by the House on April
15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 39 on May 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 4, 1
present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 39 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor