Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 836 amends the Government Code to add birth and death records maintained by a local registration official to exemptions from open records requirements. The act establishes that a general birth or death index and a summary birth or death index maintained by the Bureau of Vital Statistics or a local registration official is public information and available to the public. A general or summary birth index is not public if it can reveal an adoption or paternity determination or if it contains specific identifying information relating to the parents of a child who is the subject of an adoption placement.