Bill Text: TX HB4079 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to microfiche, microfilm, or electronic storage of birth records.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Public Health [HB4079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4079-Introduced.html
| By: Wu | H.B. No. 4079 | |
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| relating to microfiche, microfilm, or electronic storage of birth | ||
| records. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 191.032, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the state registrar | ||
| shall arrange and permanently preserve birth certificates for | ||
| births occurring on or after January 1, 2015, on microfiche, | ||
| microfilm, or an electronic storage media. After transferring a | ||
| birth certificate onto microfiche, microfilm, or an electronic | ||
| storage media under this subsection, the registrar shall destroy | ||
| the original certificate. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
