1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 49 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 1994; January 10, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 March 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-5 Nays 0; March 7, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to persons authorized to place a child for adoption; 1-9 providing a penalty. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 16, Family Code, is amended 1-12 by adding Section 16.011 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 16.011. AUTHORITY TO PLACE CHILD FOR ADOPTION. (a) A 1-14 person commits an offense if the person plans for the placement of 1-15 a child for adoption or places a child for adoption and the person 1-16 is not the natural or adoptive parent of the child, the guardian of 1-17 the child, or a licensed child-placing agency as defined by Chapter 1-18 42, Human Resources Code. 1-19 (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-26 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-27 * * * * *