1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 267
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1993; February 8, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 23, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
1-6 February 23, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Zaffirini x
1-10 Ellis x
1-11 Madla x
1-12 Moncrief x
1-13 Nelson x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Shelley x
1-16 Truan x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 267 By: Zaffirini
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the certification of births and to birth certificates.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 192.003, Health and Safety Code, is
1-24 amended to read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 192.003. Birth Certificate Filed or Birth Reported.
1-26 (a) The physician, midwife, or person acting as a midwife in
1-27 attendance at a birth shall file the birth certificate with the
1-28 local registrar of the registration district in which the birth
1-29 occurs.
1-30 (b) If a birth occurs in a hospital or birthing center, the
1-31 hospital administrator, the birthing center administrator, or a
1-32 designee of the appropriate administrator may file the birth
1-33 certificate in lieu of a person listed by Subsection (a).
1-34 (c) If there is no physician, midwife, or person acting as a
1-35 midwife in attendance at a birth and if the birth does not occur in
1-36 a hospital or birthing center, the following in the order listed
1-37 shall report the birth to the local registrar:
1-38 (1) the father or mother of the child; or
1-39 (2) the owner or householder of the premises where the
1-40 birth occurs <if the birth does not occur in an institution, or the
1-41 manager or superintendent of the institution in which the birth
1-42 occurs>.
1-43 (d) <(c)> A person required to file a birth certificate or
1-44 report a birth shall file the certificate or make the report not
1-45 later than the fifth day after the date of the birth.
1-46 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 192.004, Health and
1-47 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-48 (a) The local registrar shall obtain the information
1-49 necessary to prepare the birth certificate from the person
1-50 reporting a birth or from another person with the required
1-51 knowledge if:
1-52 (1) the birth is reported under Section 192.003(c)
1-53 <192.003(b)>; or
1-54 (2) a person <physician, midwife, or person acting as
1-55 a midwife> who files a certificate under Section 192.003(a) or
1-56 192.003(b) cannot by diligent inquiry obtain an item of information
1-57 required for the certificate.
1-58 SECTION 3. Subsection (g), Section 81.090, Health and Safety
1-59 Code, is repealed.
1-60 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-61 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-66 * * * * *
1-67 Austin,
1-68 Texas
2-1 February 23,
2-2 1993
2-3 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-4 President of the Senate
2-5 Sir:
2-6 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
2-7 referred S.B. No. 267, have had the same under consideration, and I
2-8 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-9 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee
2-10 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
2-11 Ellis,
2-12 Vice-Chair
2-13 * * * * *
2-14 WITNESSES
2-15 FOR AGAINST ON
2-16 ___________________________________________________________________
2-17 Name: Richard Bays x
2-18 Representing: TX Dept. of Health
2-19 City: Austin
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