Despite plenty of anti-gay rhetoric from Republican elected officials, Texas state government has largely complied with the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. The Employee ...

Texas has rewritten its rules on birth certificates, but attorneys still encourage same-sex couples to do an adoption. The new rules issued by Texas Vital Statistics Unit give parents a choice how a ...

Texas Vital Statistics no longer accepts court orders to update birth certificate sex markers News ...

A state registry helps reunite adult adoptees with birth family members, but only if parties on both sides of the hunt register for the process. The Texas Vital Statistics Central Adoption Registry is ...

AUSTIN — Texas will offer credit monitoring to 1,500 people whose personal information was included in a book of birth records that went missing at least four years ago. The early-1993 birth records ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas >> Texas has for seven years said it won’t accept Mexican identification cards when issuing birth certificates for children of people in the United States illegally. But it doesn’t ...