Tex. Fam. Code § 108.110 · Chapter 108. CENTRAL RECORD FILE; VITAL STATISTICS
RELEASE OF INFORMATION BY VITAL STATISTICS UNIT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The vital statistics unit shall provide to the Department of Family and Protective Services:
(1) adoption information as necessary for the department to comply with federal law or regulations regarding the compilation or reporting of adoption information to federal officials; and
(2) other information as necessary for the department to administer its duties.
(b) The unit may release otherwise confidential information from the unit's central record files to another governmental entity that has a specific need for the information and maintains appropriate safeguards to prevent further dissemination of the information.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1390, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.042, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.108.htm
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- sha256 367903e12ce64d2cd18773512161b442e67ce6309111bcaad6bc4a66e392b2c8
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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