Bill Text: TX SB1402 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to access to records and certain information in those records regarding a child placed for adoption.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1402-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to access to records and certain information in those records regarding a child placed for adoption.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1402-Comm_Sub.html
By: Carona | S.B. No. 1402 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 18, 2013, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; | ||
April 11, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 11, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to access to records and certain information in those | ||
records regarding a child placed for adoption. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 162.006, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) The department, licensed child-placing agency, or other | ||
person[ |
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prospective adoptive parents of their right to examine the records | ||
and other information relating to the history of the child. The | ||
department, licensed child-placing agency, or other person [ |
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information to protect the identity of the biological parents and | ||
any other person whose identity is confidential. | ||
(a-1) The records described by Subsection (a) must include | ||
any records relating to an investigation of abuse in which the child | ||
was an alleged or confirmed victim of sexual abuse while residing in | ||
a foster home or other residential child-care facility. If the | ||
licensed child-placing agency or other person placing the child for | ||
adoption does not have the information required by this subsection, | ||
the department, at the request of the licensed child-placing agency | ||
or other person placing the child for adoption, shall provide the | ||
information to the prospective adoptive parents of the child. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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