Texas Health and Safety Code 191.003 – Powers and Duties of Executive Commissioner and Department
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(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt necessary rules for collecting, recording, transcribing, compiling, and preserving vital statistics.
(a-1) The department shall:
(1) supervise the vital statistics unit; and
(2) appoint the director of the vital statistics unit.
(b) In an emergency, the executive commissioner may suspend any part of this title that hinders the uniform and efficient registration of vital events and may substitute emergency rules designed to expedite that registration under disaster conditions.