By West H.B. No. 2109
75R4080 JBN-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to when an affidavit of relinquishment of parental rights
1-3 may be executed by a parent.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 161.103(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) An affidavit for voluntary relinquishment of parental
1-8 rights must be:
1-9 (1) signed after the birth of the child, but not
1-10 before 24 [48] hours after the birth of the child, by the parent,
1-11 whether or not a minor, whose parental rights are to be
1-12 relinquished;
1-13 (2) witnessed by two credible persons; and
1-14 (3) verified before a person authorized to take oaths.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-16 applies only to an affidavit of relinquishment of parental rights
1-17 executed on or after that date.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.