Bill Text: TX HB874 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of a certified birth record to a homeless individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Public Health [HB874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB874-Introduced.html
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By: Lopez | H.B. No. 874 |
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relating to the issuance of a certified birth record to a homeless | ||
individual. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 191, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 191.00495 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 191.00495. BIRTH RECORD ISSUED TO HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL. | ||
(a) In this section, "homeless individual": | ||
(1) means an individual who: | ||
(A) lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate | ||
nighttime residence; or | ||
(B) has a primary nighttime residence that is: | ||
(i) a supervised publicly or privately | ||
operated shelter designed to provide temporary living | ||
accommodations, including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and | ||
transitional housing for the mentally ill; | ||
(ii) an institution that provides a | ||
temporary residence for individuals intended to be | ||
institutionalized; or | ||
(iii) a public or private place not | ||
designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping | ||
accommodation for human beings; and | ||
(2) does not include an individual who is imprisoned | ||
or otherwise detained in a correctional facility. | ||
(b) On request of a homeless individual, the state | ||
registrar, a local registrar, or a county clerk shall issue, | ||
without fee, a certified copy of the individual's birth record to | ||
the individual. | ||
(c) The department by rule shall: | ||
(1) adopt a process to verify a person's status as a | ||
homeless individual; and | ||
(2) prescribe the documentation necessary for the | ||
issuance of a certified copy of a birth record to a homeless | ||
individual whose status is verified through the process adopted | ||
under Subdivision (1). | ||
(d) Notwithstanding any other law of this state, the | ||
department may not require a homeless individual to provide a | ||
physical address of the individual's residence to satisfy any | ||
requirement of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
application for a birth record submitted on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. An application for a birth record submitted before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | ||
the date the application was submitted, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |