By Greenberg H.B. No. 1107 74R1701 MJW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to preparation and distribution by the Department of 1-3 Protective and Regulatory Services of an adoption information form. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 16, Family Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 16.13 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 16.13. INFORMATION REGARDING RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF 1-8 CERTAIN PARTIES TO AN ADOPTION. (a) The Department of Protective 1-9 and Regulatory Services shall prepare a form outlining the legal 1-10 rights and obligations of a person who is: 1-11 (1) terminating the person's parental rights and 1-12 placing a child for adoption; or 1-13 (2) petitioning for the adoption of a child. 1-14 (b) The department shall update the form as necessary to 1-15 reflect changes in the law. 1-16 (c) The department shall distribute the form to: 1-17 (1) a governmental entity or private entity routinely 1-18 involved in the placement of children for adoption; and 1-19 (2) each court in the state that hears adoption cases. 1-20 (d) An entity that receives the adoption information form 1-21 under Subsection (c)(1) shall distribute a copy of the form to each 1-22 party to an adoption in which the entity is involved. 1-23 (e) A court that receives the adoption information form 1-24 under Subsection (c)(2) shall inquire of the parties to an adoption 2-1 suit whether each party has received a copy of the form and shall 2-2 distribute the form to a party who has not previously received it. 2-3 SECTION 2. The Department of Protective and Regulatory 2-4 Services shall prepare and distribute the adoption information form 2-5 required by Section 16.13, Family Code, as added by this Act not 2-6 later than January 1, 1996. 2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.