Bill Text: TX HB4795 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to duties of the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services in relation to certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including in regard to the electronic transmission of certain information.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB4795 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB4795-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4795 | ||
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| relating to duties of the vital statistics unit of the Department of | ||
| State Health Services in relation to certain suits affecting the | ||
| parent-child relationship, including in regard to the electronic | ||
| transmission of certain information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 155.101, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) The vital statistics unit shall, on the [ |
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| request of the Department of Family and Protective Services, the | ||
| court, an attorney, or a party: | ||
| (1) identify the court that last had continuing, | ||
| exclusive jurisdiction of the child in a suit and give the docket | ||
| number of the suit; or | ||
| (2) state that the child has not been the subject of a | ||
| suit. | ||
| (e) Using existing resources, the vital statistics unit | ||
| shall establish an electronic process through which the Department | ||
| of Family and Protective Services may request information under | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 160.422, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (b) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a-1) Using existing resources, the vital statistics unit | ||
| shall establish an electronic process through which the Department | ||
| of Family and Protective Services may request information under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (b) The certificate of the results of a search must include | ||
| a digitized or written signature [ |
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| and state that: | ||
| (1) a search has been made of the registry; and | ||
| (2) a registration containing the information | ||
| required to identify the registrant: | ||
| (A) has been found and is attached to the | ||
| certificate; or | ||
| (B) has not been found. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a request received by the vital statistics unit of the Department of | ||
| State Health Services on or after January 1, 2026. A request | ||
| received before January 1, 2026, is governed by the law in effect | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4795 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 121, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4795 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
