By: Shapiro S.B. No. 670 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to adoption incentives for licensed child-placing 1-2 agencies. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 162, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Subchapter G to read as follows: 1-6 SUBCHAPTER G. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 1-7 Sec. 162.601. INCENTIVES FOR LICENSED CHILD-PLACING 1-8 AGENCIES. (a) Subject to the availability of funds, the 1-9 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services shall pay, in 1-10 addition to any other amounts due, a monetary incentive to a 1-11 licensed child-placing agency for the completion of an adoption: 1-12 (1) of a child, as defined by Section 162.301, 1-13 receiving or entitled to receive foster care at department expense; 1-14 and 1-15 (2) arranged with the assistance of the agency. 1-16 (b) The incentive must equal 25 percent of the amount the 1-17 department would have spent to provide one year of foster care for 1-18 the child, determined according to the child's level of care at the 1-19 time the adoption is completed. 1-20 (c) For purposes of this section, an adoption is completed 1-21 on the date on which the court issues the adoption order. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act applies to an adoption that becomes 1-23 final on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes of 2-1 this section, an adoption becomes final on the date the court 2-2 issues the adoption order. 2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-4 SECTION 4. 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.