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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to properly recorded diacritical marks in vital statistics |
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records, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and |
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personal identification certificates. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 191.009, Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended as follows: |
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Sec. 191.009. USE OF DIACRITICAL MARKS. (a) In this |
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section, "diacritical mark" means a mark used in Latin script to |
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change the sound of the letter to which it is added or used to |
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distinguish the meaning of the word in which the letter appears. The |
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term includes accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, apostrophes, and |
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cedillas. |
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(b) The state registrar shall ensure that a vital statistics |
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record issued under this title properly records any diacritical |
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mark used in a person's name. |