Tex. Health & Safety Code § 192.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL REGISTRATION PROVISIONS
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FILED OR BIRTH REPORTED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 the registration district in which the birth occurs.
(b) If a birth occurs in a hospital or birthing center, the hospital administrator, the birthing center administrator, or a designee of the appropriate administrator may file the birth certificate in lieu of a person listed by Subsection (a).
(c) If there is no physician, midwife, or person acting as a midwife in attendance at a birth and if the birth does not occur in a hospital or birthing center, the following in the order listed shall report the birth to the local registrar:
(1) the father or mother of the child; or
(2) the owner or householder of the premises where the birth occurs.
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a person required to file a birth certificate or report a birth shall file the certificate or make the report not later than the fifth day after the date of the birth.
(e) Based on a parent's religious beliefs, a parent may request that a person required to file a birth certificate or report a birth delay filing the certificate or making the report until the parent contacts the person with the child's name. If a parent does not name the child before the fifth day after the date of the birth due to the parent's religious beliefs, the parent must contact the person required to file the birth certificate or report the birth with the name of the child as soon as the child is named. A person required to file the birth certificate or report the birth who delays filing the certificate or making the report in accordance with the parent's request shall file the certificate or make the report not later than the 15th day after the date of the child's birth.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 30, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 519, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 17.01(21), eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, Sec. 124, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, Sec. 81, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 68 (H.B. 1604), Sec. 1, eff. May 17, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.192.htm
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Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 192.003. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 192.004INFORMATION OBTAINED BY LOCAL REGISTRAR.Printed as Section 192.003(a) or 192.003(b) | Section 192.003(c)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 192.012RECORD OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PATERNITY.Printed as Section 192.003
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 195.004FAILURE TO PERFORM DUTY.Printed as Section 192.003
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