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TX HB2291
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
David Lowe
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AI Summary
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Requires Texas birth certificates to include a space for recording biological sex as either male or female, determined by sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile
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Prohibits state registrars, local registrars, and courts from issuing amended birth certificates that change the biological sex designation, with limited exceptions
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Allows sex designation changes only to correct clerical errors, complete missing sex information, or for individuals born with atypical or ambiguous sex characteristics whose sex is later determined by a physician
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Provides an exception for children born with intersex conditions, allowing the sex field to remain blank at birth and be completed later once sex is determined
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Directs the Health and Human Services Commission to adopt implementing rules, with an effective date of September 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth certificate and prohibited change of sex on the birth certificate of certain persons.
Health
Last Action
Referred to Public Health
3/14/2025