74R9690 MJW-F By Greenberg H.B. No. 1109 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1109: By Van de Putte C.S.H.B. No. 1109 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.