By: Martinez Fischer H.B. No. 1829
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to properly recorded diacritical marks in vital statistics
  records, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and
  personal identification certificates.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 191.009, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended as follows:
         Sec. 191.009.  USE OF DIACRITICAL MARKS. (a) In this
  section, "diacritical mark" means a mark used in Latin script to
  change the sound of the letter to which it is added or used to
  distinguish the meaning of the word in which the letter appears. The
  term includes accents, tildes, graves, umlauts, apostrophes, and
  cedillas.
         (b)  The state registrar shall ensure that a vital statistics
  record issued under this title properly records any diacritical
  mark used in a person's name.