Sex Designation on Certificates of Birth, Licenses, and Identification Cards and Birth Information Histories (Birth Certificate Modernization Act)

Where it is in the process

Plain-English Summary

Requiring the Secretary of Health to keep and maintain a birth information history for each individual for whom a certificate of birth is issued under a certain provision of law; requiring the Secretary to maintain a database of birth information histories that may be accessed by governmental entities for a certain purpose under certain circumstances; altering the circumstances under which the Secretary is required to make a new certificate of birth due to the change of a sex designation of an i…

Where Orgs Stand

National Center for Transgender EqualitySupports

This bill creates a new 'X' gender designation on birth certificates and removes the requirement that a physician attest to gender transition, making it easier for transgender and nonbinary people to obtain accurate identity documents.

SB 626 sponsored by Sen. Clarence Lam (D-Howard/Montgomery). Core NCTE policy area: identity document access.

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