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.