Bill Text: TX HB537 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the information on the supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB537 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB537-Comm_Sub.html

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84R23408 JSC-F
By: Anchia, Davis of Harris, Israel, Coleman, H.B. No. 537
González, et al.
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 537:
By: Farrar C.S.H.B. No. 537

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the information on the supplementary birth certificate
of an adopted child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 192.008, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) The supplementary birth certificate of an adopted
child must be in the names of both adoptive parents, as reflected on
the certificate of adoption, unless the child is adopted by a single
individual. Copies of the child's birth certificates or birth
records may not disclose that the child is adopted.
SECTION 2. Section 192.008(a), Health and Safety Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a supplementary birth certificate issued on or after the
effective date of this Act. A supplementary birth certificate
issued before the effective date of this Act is covered 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.