By King of Uvalde H.B. No. 836
76R4039 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to access under the public information law to birth and
1-3 death indexes.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 552.115, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 552.115. EXCEPTION: BIRTH AND DEATH RECORDS. A birth
1-8 or death record maintained by the bureau of vital statistics of the
1-9 Texas Department of Health or a local registration official is
1-10 excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021, except that:
1-11 (1) a birth record is public information and available
1-12 to the public on and after the 50th anniversary of the date on
1-13 which the record is filed with the bureau of vital statistics or
1-14 local registration official; [and]
1-15 (2) a death record is public information and available
1-16 to the public on and after the 25th anniversary of the date on
1-17 which the record is filed with the bureau of vital statistics or
1-18 local registration official; and
1-19 (3) a birth index or a death index established or
1-20 maintained by the bureau of vital statistics or a local
1-21 registration official is public information and available to the
1-22 public.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-7 Amend H.B. No. 836 as follows:
2-8 (3) a birth index or a death index established or
2-9 maintained by the bureau of vital statistics or a local
2-10 registration official is public information and available to the
2-11 public upon the anniversary of the date on which the record becomes
2-12 public as specified in this section.
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