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TX HB2291

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

David Lowe

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • Prohibits state registrars, local registrars, and courts from issuing amended birth certificates that change the biological sex designation, with limited exceptions

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Public Health3/14/2025

Full Bill Text

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