H.B. No. 1109
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a mandatory study into the circumstances and condition
    1-3  of the home of a person seeking to adopt a child.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 162.003, Family Code, as added by H.B.
    1-6  655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 162.003.  SOCIAL STUDY.  (a)  In a suit for adoption,
    1-9  including a suit in which a private agency or individual is
   1-10  responsible for placing the child for adoption, the court shall
   1-11  order a social study as provided in Chapter 107.
   1-12        (b)  The social study required by this section must include a
   1-13  complete investigation of the circumstances and condition of the
   1-14  home of a person petitioning for the adoption of a child under this
   1-15  chapter.
   1-16        (c)  The court shall order that the cost of the social study
   1-17  be paid by the person seeking to adopt the child who is the subject
   1-18  of the social study.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-20  applies only to a social study ordered by a court under Section
   1-21  162.003, Family Code, as amended by this Act, on or after the
   1-22  effective date of this Act in a suit affecting the parent-child
   1-23  relationship in which an adoption is sought, without regard to
   1-24  whether the suit is filed before, on, or after the effective date
    2-1  of this Act.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.