79R1986 MCK-D

By:  Van Arsdale                                                  H.B. No. 723



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain reports filed with the bureau of vital 
statistics.      
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 194.002(d), Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(d)  Not later than the ninth day of each month, each 
district clerk shall file with the bureau of vital statistics a 
completed report for each divorce or annulment of marriage granted 
in the district court during the preceding calendar month.  Before 
the clerk files a report with the bureau under this subsection, the 
clerk must verify that the report contains all of the information 
required by Subsection (a).  If a report does not include the 
information required by Subsection (a)(3) or (4), the clerk must 
complete that information on the report before the clerk files the 
report with the bureau.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.