82R8577 TJB-D
By: Farias H.B. No. 1782
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a report on efforts made by the Department of Family and
Protective Services to place children in adoptive homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 162, Family
Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER D. ADOPTION SERVICES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND
PROTECTIVE [AND REGULATORY] SERVICES
SECTION 2. Section 162.301(3), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(3) "Department" means the Department of Family and
Protective [and Regulatory] Services.
SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 162, Family Code, is
amended by adding Section 162.310 to read as follows:
Sec. 162.310. REPORT TO GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE. (a) The
department shall, not later than January 1 of each year, submit to
the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of
representatives, and appropriate committees of the legislature a
report describing the efforts made by the department to place
children in the department's managing conservatorship in adoptive
homes.
(b) The report must include the following information for
the preceding year, sorted by department region and district:
(1) the number of children in the department's
managing conservatorship;
(2) the number and percentage of children placed by
the department in an adoptive home;
(3) the number and percentage of children who were
separated from a sibling when placed by the department in an
adoptive home; and
(4) the number of children placed by the department in
an adoptive home who were in the department's managing
conservatorship for:
(A) less than one year;
(B) at least one year but less than three years;
and
(C) three years or more.
SECTION 4. 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, 2011.