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Bill Relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services. Relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 545 Texas SB 545 (88)
bill
BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES (S6418)
Elections--Administration (I0277)
Health--General (I0385)
SECRETARY OF STATE (V0042)
STATE HEALTH SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF (V0463)
VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS (S2714)
enacted
Kolkhorst
Toth
5 44 1 2023-01-23 2023-06-18 openstates ocd-bill/8ee6a048-d5d1-44ec-a7ee-167a1269dfb1 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00500_SB00599/SB 545.xml f3240dea2f6aee3d10a7caf79c791457c91520aa03854d317056366d1eb2bccc 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 545 (88) — Relating to death records maintained and provided by the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • passage — 1410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Kolkhorst — primary (person)
  • Toth — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2023-01-23 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2023-01-23 Filed filing
  • 2023-02-17 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-02-17 Referred to Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2023-03-08 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-08 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-08 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-08 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-03-13 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-13 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-03-13 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-03 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-03 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-04-03 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-03 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-03 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-03 Record vote
  • 2023-04-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-03 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-03 Record vote
  • 2023-04-03 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-03 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-12 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-12 Referred to Elections referral-committee
  • 2023-05-17 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-05-17 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-20 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-20 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-20 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-21 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-23 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-23 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-05-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-24 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-24 Record vote
  • 2023-05-24 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-24 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-24 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-25 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-26 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-29 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-18 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ee6a048-d5d1-44ec-a7ee-167a1269dfb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).