By Hartnett                                     H.B. No. 1900

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the supplementary birth certificate of an adopted

 1-3     child.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 192.008(a), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child

 1-8     must be in the names of the adoptive parents, one of whom must be a

 1-9     female, named as the mother, and the other of whom must be a male,

1-10     named as the father.  This subsection does not prohibit a single

1-11     individual, male or female, from adopting a child.  Copies of the

1-12     child's birth certificates or birth records may not disclose that

1-13     the child is adopted.

1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.