Bill Text: TX HB763 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the permanent preservation of birth certificates on microfiche, microfilm, or electronic storage media.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Public Health [HB763 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB763-Introduced.html
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| By: Wu | H.B. No. 763 | |
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| relating to the permanent preservation of birth certificates on | ||
| microfiche, microfilm, or electronic storage media. | ||
| 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, 2017, on microfiche, | ||
| microfilm, or an electronic storage media. After transferring a | ||
| birth certificate onto microfiche, microfilm, or an electronic | ||
| storage media as required by this subsection, the state registrar | ||
| shall destroy the original certificate. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
