1-1  By:  Moffat (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)              H.B. No. 1641
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
    1-3  May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 23, 1993, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 23, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Zaffirini          x                               
    1-9        Ellis              x                               
   1-10        Madla              x                               
   1-11        Moncrief           x                               
   1-12        Nelson             x                               
   1-13        Patterson          x                               
   1-14        Shelley            x                               
   1-15        Truan              x                               
   1-16        Wentworth                                      x   
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to the issuance of and fees for heirloom birth
   1-20  certificates.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 192, Health and Safety
   1-23  Code, is amended by adding Section 192.0021 to read as follows:
   1-24        Sec. 192.0021.  HEIRLOOM BIRTH CERTIFICATE.  (a)  The
   1-25  department may design the form of an heirloom birth certificate and
   1-26  may promote and sell copies of the certificate.  An heirloom birth
   1-27  certificate must contain the same information as, and have the same
   1-28  effect of, a certified copy of another birth record.  The
   1-29  department shall prescribe a fee for the issuance of an heirloom
   1-30  birth certificate in an amount that does not exceed $30.
   1-31        (b)  Proceeds from the sale of heirloom birth certificates
   1-32  shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund.  An
   1-33  amount not to exceed the costs of administering this section as
   1-34  determined by the comptroller shall be appropriated to the
   1-35  department for administering this section.
   1-36        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-42                                                         Austin,
   1-43  Texas
   1-44                                                         May 23, 1993
   1-45  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-46  President of the Senate
   1-47  Sir:
   1-48  We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
   1-49  referred H.B. No. 1641, have had the same under consideration, and
   1-50  I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-51  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-52                                                         Zaffirini,
   1-53  Chair
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   1-55                               WITNESSES
   1-56  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1641.