Texas Health And Safety Code Title 3, Chapter 192 - Birth Records

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL REGISTRATION PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 192.001 - Registration Required
  The birth of each child born in this state shall be registered. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
• Texas Section 192.002 - Form Of Birth Certificate
  (a) The department shall prescribe the form and contents of the birth certificate. (b) The section of the birth certificate entitled "For Medical and Health...
• Texas Section 192.0021 - Heirloom Birth Certificate
  (a) The department shall promote and sell copies of an heirloom birth certificate. The department shall solicit donated designs for the certificate from Texas artists...
• Texas Section 192.0022 - Certificate Of Birth Resulting In Stillbirth
  (a) In this section: (1) "Stillbirth" means an unintended, intrauterine fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational age of not less than 20...
• Texas Section 192.003 - Birth Certificate Filed Or Birth Reported
  (a) The physician, midwife, or person acting as a midwife in attendance at a birth shall file the birth certificate with the local registrar of...
• Texas Section 192.0031 - Information Of Birth To School-age Mother
  (a) Notwithstanding Subchapter C, Chapter 552, Government Code, the department shall notify the commissioner of education of each birth to a school-age mother. The commissioner...
• Texas Section 192.004 - Information Obtained By Local Registrar
  (a) The local registrar shall obtain the information necessary to prepare the birth certificate from the person reporting a birth or from another person with...
• Texas Section 192.005 - Record Of Paternity
  (a) The items on a birth certificate relating to the child's father shall be completed only if: (1) the child's mother was married to the...
• Texas Section 192.0051 - Report Of Determination Of Paternity
  (a) A report of each determination of paternity in this state shall be filed with the state registrar. (b) On a determination of paternity, the...
• Texas Section 192.006 - Supplementary Birth Certificates
  (a) A supplementary birth certificate may be filed if the person who is the subject of the certificate: (1) becomes the child of the person's...
• Texas Section 192.007 - Supplementary Certificates For Child Who Dies Before Adoption
  (a) If a child in the process of being adopted in this state dies before the adoption is completed, the persons who attempted to adopt...
• Texas Section 192.008 - Birth Records Of Adopted Person
  (a) The supplementary birth certificate of an adopted child must be in the names of the adoptive parents, one of whom must be a female,...
• Texas Section 192.009 - Certificate Of Adoption, Annulment Of Adoption, Or Revocation Of Adoption
  (a) A certificate of each adoption, annulment of adoption, and revocation of adoption decreed in this state shall be filed with the state registrar. (b)...
• Texas Section 192.010 - Change Of Name
  (a) Subject to department rules, an adult whose name is changed by court order, or the legal representative of any person whose name is changed...
• Texas Section 192.011 - Amending Birth Certificate
  (a) This section applies to an amending birth certificate that is filed under Section 191.028 and that completes or corrects information relating to the person's...

SUBCHAPTER B DELAYED REGISTRATION

• Texas Section 192.012 - Record Of Acknowledgment Of Paternity
  (a) If the mother of a child is not married to the father of the child, a person listed in Section 192.003 who is responsible...
• Texas Section 192.021 - Delay Less Than One Year
  (a) A birth that occurred more than five days but less than one year before the date of an application for registration may be recorded...
• Texas Section 192.022 - Delay Of One Year Or More: Application Filed With State Registrar
  Subject to department rules, an application to file a delayed birth certificate for a birth in this state not registered before the one-year anniversary of...
• Texas Section 192.023 - Delay Of More Than One But Less Than Four Years
  (a) A birth that occurred at least one year but less than four years before the date of the application for registration shall be recorded...
• Texas Section 192.024 - Delay Of Four Years Or More
  (a) A birth that occurred four or more years before the date of the application for registration shall be recorded on a form entitled "Delayed...
• Texas Section 192.025 - Supporting Documents
  (a) The state registrar shall accept an application under Section 192.024 if the applicant's statement of date and place of birth and parentage is established...
• Texas Section 192.026 - Rejection Or Return Of Application
  (a) The state registrar may not register a delayed birth certificate if: (1) the applicant does not submit the documentary evidence required by Section 192.025;...
• Texas Section 192.027 - Registration By Judicial Order
  (a) If a delayed birth certificate is not accepted for registration by the state registrar, the person may file a petition in the statutory probate...
• Texas Section 192.028 - Appointment Of Attorney Ad Litem
  A judge of a statutory probate court or district court may appoint an attorney ad litem in a proceeding under Section 192.027 to represent the...
• Texas Section 192.029 - Refusal To Sign Affidavit Of Personal Knowledge
  (a) A parent of a person who is seeking a delayed birth certificate under this subchapter shall sign an affidavit of personal knowledge acknowledging that...

Last modified: September 28, 2016