By Moncrief                                             S.B. No. 49
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 49:
          By Naishtat                                         C.S.S.B. No. 49
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of the unauthorized placement of a child
    1-3  for adoption.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 162, Family Code, as added
    1-6  by House Bill 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session,
    1-7  1995, is amended by adding Section 162.025 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 162.025.  PLACEMENT BY UNAUTHORIZED PERSON; OFFENSE.  A
    1-9  person who is not the natural or adoptive parent of the child, the
   1-10  legal guardian of the child, or a child-placing agency licensed
   1-11  under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, commits an offense if the
   1-12  person:
   1-13              (1)  serves as an intermediary between a prospective
   1-14  adoptive parent and an expectant parent or parent of a minor child
   1-15  to identify the parties to each other or facilitates the placement
   1-16  of the child for adoption; or
   1-17              (2)  places a child for adoption.
   1-18        (b)  It is not an offense under this section if a
   1-19  professional provides legal or medical services to:
   1-20              (1)  a parent who identifies the prospective adoptive
   1-21  parent and places the child for adoption without the assistance of
   1-22  the professional; or
   1-23              (2)  a prospective adoptive parent who identifies a
   1-24  parent and receives placement of a child for adoption without
    2-1  assistance of the professional.
    2-2        (c)  An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.