By Greenberg H.B. No. 1109 74R1700 MJW-D 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 16.031(a), Family Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) In a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in 1-8 which an adoption is sought, including a suit in which a private 1-9 agency or individual is responsible for placing the child for 1-10 adoption, the court shall order the making of a social study as 1-11 provided in Section 11.12 of this code and shall set a date for its 1-12 filing. The social study required by this subsection must include 1-13 a 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 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-17 applies only to a social study ordered by a court under Section 1-18 16.031, Family Code, as amended by this Act, on or after the 1-19 effective date of this Act in a suit affecting the parent-child 1-20 relationship in which an adoption is sought, without regard to 1-21 whether the suit is filed before, on, or after the effective date 1-22 of this Act. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.