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                                                                  S.B. No. 1524




AN ACT

relating to fees charged for a vital statistics record.                       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsections (d), (g), and (h), Section 191.0045, 
Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(d)  A local registrar or county clerk who issues a certified 
copy of a birth or death certificate shall charge the same fees as 
charged by the bureau of vital statistics, including the additional 
fee required under Subsection (e), except as provided by 
Subsections (g) and (h).
	(g)  A local registrar or county clerk that on March 31, 
1995, was charging a fee for the issuance of a certified copy of a 
birth certificate that exceeded the fee charged by the bureau of 
vital statistics for the same type of certificate may continue to do 
so but shall not raise this fee until the fee charged by the bureau 
exceeds the fee charged by the local registrar or county clerk.  A 
local registrar or county clerk to which this subsection applies 
shall charge the additional fee as required under Subsection (e).
	(h)  In addition to other fees collected under this section, 
a local registrar or county clerk may collect a fee not to exceed $1 
for the preservation of vital statistics records maintained by the 
registrar or county clerk, including birth, death, fetal death, 
marriage, divorce, and annulment records.  A fee under this section 
shall be collected by the registrar or county clerk on the issuance 
of a vital statistics record, including a record issued through a 
Remote Birth Access site.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee for a vital 
statistic record issued on or after September 1, 2005.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           





______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1524 passed the Senate on 
April 14, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1524 passed the House on 
May 25, 2005, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor