By: Hickland (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 4466 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2025; May 16, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; May 23, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to restrictions on the fee assessed for issuance of certain birth records. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 191.0046, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: (g) The state registrar, a local registrar, or a county clerk, on request of a county or a child welfare board appointed by the commissioners court of a county under Section 264.005, Family Code, shall issue without a fee a certified copy of a birth record to the county or board if the request is related to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity under Subtitle E, Title 5, Family Code. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. * * * * *