Bill Text: TX HB3730 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a committee to study adoption practices in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues [HB3730 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3730-Introduced.html
By: Leach | H.B. No. 3730 |
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relating to the creation of a committee to study adoption practices | ||
in this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 162, Family Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 162.603 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 162.603. ADOPTION PRACTICES COMMITTEE. (a) The | ||
adoption practices committee is created to study and make | ||
recommendations for improving adoption practices in this state. | ||
(b) The committee consists of nine members appointed by the | ||
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission, | ||
in consultation with the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the | ||
house of representatives, as follows: | ||
(1) a member of the house of representatives; | ||
(2) a member of the senate; | ||
(3) a manager of the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services with experience in adoption related issues; | ||
(4) a representative of a family violence advocacy | ||
center; | ||
(5) a member who | ||
is an adoption lawyer; | ||
(6) an Administrator from a licensed child placing | ||
agency with experience in both state contract and private adoption; | ||
(7) a member who is a psychiatrist; and | ||
(8) three members who are adoptive parents. | ||
(c) Not later than June 1, 2018, the adoption practices | ||
committee shall prepare and submit to the office of the governor and | ||
the legislature a written report regarding the committee's | ||
findings and recommendations. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2016, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
appoint the members of the adoption practices committee under | ||
Section 162.603, Family Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |