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	Amend HB 1999 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION      .  Subchapter C, Chapter 161, Family Code, is 
amended by adding Section 161.2021 to read as follows:
	Sec. 161.2021. MEDICAL HISTORY REPORT.  (a)  In a termination 
suit, the court shall order each parent before the court to provide 
information regarding the medical history of the parent and the 
parent's ancestors.
	(b)  A parent may comply with the court's order under this 
section by completing the medical history report form adopted by 
the Department of Family and Protective Services under Section 
161.1031.
	(c)  If the Department of Family and Protective Services is a 
party to the termination suit, the information provided under this 
section must be maintained in the department records relating to 
the child and made available to persons with whom the child is 
placed.
	SECTION      .  Section 161.2021, Family Code, as added by this 
Act, applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship 
pending in a trial court on the effective date of this Act or filed 
on or after that date.  A suit affecting the parent-child 
relationship in which a final order is rendered before the 
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the 
date the order was rendered.