By Danburg                                            H.B. No. 1181
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the placement of certain children for adoption or in
 1-3     substitute care.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 162, Family Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 162.3095 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 162.3095.  DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.  (a)  The
 1-8     department, a county child-care or welfare unit, or a licensed
 1-9     child-placing agency may not  take into consideration the sex,
1-10     race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation of a prospective adoptive
1-11     parent in making an adoption placement decision for a child.
1-12           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a determination made
1-13     under Section 162.308(b).
1-14           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 264, Family Code, is
1-15     amended by adding Section 264.1085 to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 264.1085.  DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.  (a)  The
1-17     department may not take into consideration the sex, race,
1-18     ethnicity, or sexual orientation of a  prospective substitute care
1-19     provider in making a substitute care placement decision for a
1-20     child.
1-21           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a determination made
1-22     under Section 264.108(b).
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.