Bill Text: TX HB4765 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to inheritance rights of adoptive parents.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4765 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4765-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 4765
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to inheritance rights of adoptive parents.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 201.054(e), Estates Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (e)  For purposes of this section:
               (1)  "Adopted [, "adopted] child" means a child:
                     (A) [(1)]  adopted through an existing or former
  statutory procedure; or
                     (B) [(2)]  considered by a court to be equitably
  adopted or adopted by acts of estoppel.
               (2)  "Adoptive parent" means a parent:
                     (A)  who adopted a child through an existing or
  former statutory procedure; or
                     (B)  considered by a court to have equitably
  adopted a child or adopted a child by acts of estoppel.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
  201.054, Estates Code, applies only to the estate of a decedent who
  dies on or after the effective date of this Act.  The estate of a
  decedent who dies before the effective date of this Act is governed
  by the law in effect on the date of the decedent's death, and the
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4765 was passed by the House on May 2,
  2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 6, 3 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4765 was passed by the Senate on May
  21, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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