By Reyna of Bexar H.B. No. 625
76R627 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the hearing date on an adoption.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 162.004, Family Code, as amended by
1-5 Section 74, Chapter 751, and Section 1, Chapter 908, Acts of the
1-6 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is reenacted and amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 162.004. TIME FOR HEARING. (a) The court shall set
1-9 the date for the hearing on the adoption at a time not before the
1-10 40th day or later than the 180th [60th] day after the later of the
1-11 date the social study is ordered or the date criminal history
1-12 record information is requested under Section 162.0085.
1-13 (b) For good cause shown, the court may set the hearing at
1-14 any time that provides adequate time for filing the social study
1-15 and notifying the court of the criminal history record information
1-16 for a person seeking to adopt the child.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-18 applies only to a suit for adoption filed on or after that date. A
1-19 suit for adoption filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-20 governed by the law in effect at the time the suit was filed, and
1-21 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.