Bill Text: TX HB157 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for child-placing agencies providing international adoption services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB157 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB157-Introduced.html

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86R113 MM-D
By: White H.B. No. 157

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for
child-placing agencies providing international adoption services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (h-2) to read as follows:
(h-2) The minimum standards for the regulation of
child-placing agencies licensed by the commission that provide
international adoption services must require that, for a child
adopted in a foreign country, the child-placing agency:
(1) conduct a post-placement review; and
(2) prepare at least two post-placement adoptive
reports.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.