73R8200 KLL-D
          By Moffat                                             H.B. No. 1641
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of and fees for heirloom birth
    1-3  certificates.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 192, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 192.0021 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 192.0021.  HEIRLOOM BIRTH CERTIFICATE.  (a)  The
    1-8  department may design the form of an heirloom birth certificate and
    1-9  may promote and sell copies of the certificate.  An heirloom birth
   1-10  certificate must contain the same information as, and have the same
   1-11  effect of, a certified copy of another birth record.  The
   1-12  department shall prescribe a fee for the issuance of an heirloom
   1-13  birth certificate in an amount that does not exceed $30.
   1-14        (b)  Proceeds from the sale of heirloom birth certificates
   1-15  shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund.  An
   1-16  amount not to exceed the costs of administering this section as
   1-17  determined by the comptroller shall be appropriated to the
   1-18  department for administering this section.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.