86R113 MM-D
By: White H.B. No. 157
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for
child-placing agencies providing international adoption services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (h-2) to read as follows:
(h-2) The minimum standards for the regulation of
child-placing agencies licensed by the commission that provide
international adoption services must require that, for a child
adopted in a foreign country, the child-placing agency:
(1) conduct a post-placement review; and
(2) prepare at least two post-placement adoptive
reports.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.