83R9718 MCK-D
By: Hernandez Luna H.B. No. 2844
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to adoption services of the Department of Family and
Protective Services with respect to sibling groups.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 162.302(e), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) It is the intent of the legislature that the department
in providing adoption services, when it is in the children's best
interest, keep siblings together and whenever possible place
siblings in the same adoptive home. There is a rebuttable
presumption that removing a child from a home to place the child in
another home with a sibling is not in the child's best interest if
the child has never resided or had significant prior contact with
the sibling.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.