By: Dutton (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 4765
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023;
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to inheritance rights of adoptive parents.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 201.054(e), Estates Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Adopted [, "adopted] child" means a child:
(A) [(1)] adopted through an existing or former
statutory procedure; or
(B) [(2)] considered by a court to be equitably
adopted or adopted by acts of estoppel.
(2) "Adoptive parent" means a parent:
(A) who adopted a child through an existing or
former statutory procedure; or
(B) considered by a court to have equitably
adopted a child or adopted a child by acts of estoppel.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
201.054, Estates Code, applies only to the estate of a decedent who
dies on or after the effective date of this Act. The estate of a
decedent who dies before the effective date of this Act is governed
by the law in effect on the date of the decedent's death, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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