Bill Text: TX HB5539 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a licensed child-placing agency.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-13 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB5539 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB5539-Comm_Sub.html

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89R15626 KRM-D
By: Schatzline, Hull, Manuel, Gerdes, Harris H.B. No. 5539

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a
licensed child-placing agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 162, Family Code, is
amended by adding Section 162.605 to read as follows:
Sec. 162.605. INFORMATION REGARDING ADOPTION COSTS. A
licensed child-placing agency shall post on its Internet website
information regarding adoption costs. The information must include
an itemized list of each cost associated with an adoption.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.