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.