Amend CSHB 3778 as follows:
      (1)  On page 1, line 13, after the word "issues", strike
"and" and insert ",on ensuring homes in which children who are in
the supervision or care of the state are stable, traditional homes,
and".
      (2)  On page 1, line 24, strike "and".
      (3)  On page 2, line 3, strike the "." and substitute ";
and".
      (4)  On page 2, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following:
            (4)  investigate and ensure that a child who the
department or other state entity has been named managing
conservator is not place in:
                  (A)  an adoptive home in which homosexual conduct
occurs or is likely to occur; or
                  (B)  substitute care or allowed to remain in
substitute care with an individual or family if, after reasonable
investigation by the department, the department determines that
homosexual conduct is occurring or is likely to occur in the home
of the individual or family.
      (c)  In this Section, "homosexual conduct" means sexual
intercourse with another individual of the same sex in which there
is:
            (1)  any contact between any part of the genitals of
one person and the mouth or anus of another person; or
            (2)  the penetration of the genitals or the anus of
another person with an object.