By: Hickland (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 4466
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2025;
  May 16, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 23, 2025, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to restrictions on the fee assessed for issuance of
  certain birth records.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 191.0046, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
         (g)  The state registrar, a local registrar, or a county
  clerk, on request of a county or a child welfare board appointed by
  the commissioners court of a county under Section 264.005, Family
  Code, shall issue without a fee a certified copy of a birth record
  to the county or board if the request is related to a suit affecting
  the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity under
  Subtitle E, Title 5, Family Code.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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