By Shapiro S.B. No. 52
75R1494 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the validity of adoption orders.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 162.012(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The validity of an adoption order is not subject to
1-7 attack after six months after [the second anniversary of] the date
1-8 the order was rendered.
1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-10 applies only to an adoption order rendered on or after that date.
1-11 An adoption order rendered before the effective date of this Act is
1-12 governed by the law as it existed immediately before that date, and
1-13 that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.