When a declaration and registration of an informal marriage is filed in a county office, the form is sent to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) through the Texas Electronic Vital Events Registrar (TxEVER) system. DSHS indicates that the agency would incur some additional one-time costs required by the software vendor for modifications to TxEVER to add the checkbox to the marriage module to indicate when it was checked on the informal marriage form and for additional DSHS information technology staff augmentation time to implement changes including user acceptance testing, deploying changes to production, and verifying changes.
It is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources.
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.