By Hartnett H.B. No. 1900 75R6468 MCK-D 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.