Bill Text: TX HB2844 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2844 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to adoption services of the Department of Family and Protective Services with respect to sibling groups.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2844 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2844-Introduced.html

	83R9718 MCK-D

	By: Hernandez Luna	H.B. No. 2844



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to adoption services of the Department of Family and
	Protective Services with respect to sibling groups.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 162.302(e), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(e) It is the intent of the legislature that the department
	in providing adoption services, when it is in the children's best
	interest, keep siblings together and whenever possible place
	siblings in the same adoptive home. There is a rebuttable
	presumption that removing a child from a home to place the child in
	another home with a sibling is not in the child's best interest if
	the child has never resided or had significant prior contact with
	the sibling.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.