SRC-JBJ S.B. 1064 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 1064
By: Staples
Jurisprudence
6/15/2001
Enrolled


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The Texas Family Code sets forth both the responsibilities of the Texas
Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (department) in regard to
the adoption process and the legislative intent of those provisions.  S.B.
1064 adds to those provisions that it is the intent of the legislature that
the department, in providing adoptions services, keep siblings together
and, whenever possible, place siblings in the same adoptive home. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 162.302, Family Code, by adding Subsection (e),
to provide that it is the intent of the legislature that the Department of
Protective and Regulatory Services in providing adoption services, when it
is in the children's best interest, keep siblings together and whenever
possible place siblings in the same adoptive home. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.