Bill Text: TX SB1389 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing adoption assistance agreements for certain children after a final adoption order is rendered.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB1389 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1389-Introduced.html
| 88R13467 BDP-D | ||
| By: Parker | S.B. No. 1389 | |
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| relating to authorizing adoption assistance agreements for certain | ||
| children after a final adoption order is rendered. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 162.304, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-3) The department may enter into an adoption assistance | ||
| agreement for a child after a court has entered a final order of | ||
| adoption if the child: | ||
| (1) after the adoption is finalized, is diagnosed by | ||
| the child's health care provider as having special needs; and | ||
| (2) would have qualified for adoption assistance under | ||
| Subsection (a) if the child was determined to have special needs | ||
| before the adoption. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
| adoption for which the final order is rendered before, on, or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
