TX-HB477-2025
Texas · HB 477 · 2025
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 minors.
- Bill key
- TX-HB477-2025
- State
- Texas
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- introduced
- Citation (Bluebook)
- H.B. 477, 89th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2025), https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB477.
- Short citation
- Tex. H.B. 477.
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
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 minors.
Curator notes
Requires "biological sex" of M or F on birth certificates, with no amendments allowed save for clerical errors & with intersex exceptions
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valoree Swanson | Republican | Representative | HD-150 | Primary sponsor |
| Greg Bonnen | Republican | Representative | HD-024 | Co-sponsor |
| Briscoe Cain | Republican | Representative | HD-128 | Co-sponsor |
| Caroline Harris Davila | Republican | Representative | HD-052 | Co-sponsor |
| Richard Hayes | Republican | Representative | HD-057 | Co-sponsor |
| Carrie Isaac | Republican | Representative | HD-073 | Co-sponsor |
| Terri Leo-Wilson | Republican | Representative | HD-023 | Co-sponsor |
| William Metcalf | Republican | Representative | HD-016 | Co-sponsor |
| Joanne Shofner | Republican | Representative | HD-011 | Co-sponsor |
| Cody Vasut | Republican | Representative | HD-025 | Co-sponsor |
Model-bill lineage
Bill family
Part of a family of 15 similar bills in one state. View the family.
Similar bills
Bill text
- As introduced (5,074 characters)
Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.
Sources and license
The title, last recorded status, sponsors and dates are from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0(opens another site), credit LegiScan). The side, status, summary, curator notes, tags, topics, law status, court note and citation are the team's own work (CC BY-NC 4.0(opens another site)).