83R1135 JSC-F
By: Anchia H.B. No. 201
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the information on the supplementary birth certificate
of an adopted child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 192.008(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child
must be in the names of both [the] adoptive parents[, one of whom
must be a female, named as the mother, and the other of whom must be
a male, named as the father]. This subsection does not prohibit a
single individual, male or female, from adopting a child. Copies of
the child's birth certificates or birth records may not disclose
that the child is adopted.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a supplementary birth certificate issued on or after the
effective date of this Act. A supplementary birth certificate
issued before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law
in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.