By Greenberg H.B. No. 1106 74R2596 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting the advertisement for placement of a child 1-3 for adoption; providing a penalty. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 25, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 25.09 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 25.09. ADVERTISING FOR PLACEMENT OF CHILD. (a) A 1-8 person commits an offense if the person advertises in the public 1-9 media that the person will place a child for adoption or will 1-10 provide or obtain a child for adoption. 1-11 (b) This section does not apply to a licensed child-placing 1-12 agency that is identified in the advertisement as a licensed 1-13 child-placing agency. 1-14 (c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor 1-15 unless the person has been convicted previously under this section, 1-16 in which event the offense is a felony of the third degree. 1-17 (d) In this section, "child" has the meaning assigned by 1-18 Section 11.01, Family Code. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.