Amend CSHB 3997 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered sections and renumbering the sections of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Sections 263.407(a) and (c), Family Code,  
are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  There is a rebuttable presumption that a parent who 
delivers a child to a designated emergency infant care provider in 
accordance with Subchapter D, Chapter 262:
		(1)  is the child's biological parent;  [and]                
		(2)  intends to relinquish parental rights and consents 
to the termination of parental rights with regard to the child;  and
		(3)  intends to waive the right to notice of the suit 
terminating the parent-child relationship.
	(c)  Before the court may render an order terminating [filing 
a petition to terminate the] parental rights with regard to a child 
taken into the department's custody under Section 262.303, the 
department must:
		(1)  verify with the National Crime Information Center 
and state and local law enforcement agencies that the child is not a 
missing child;  and
		(2)  obtain a certificate of the search of the 
paternity registry under Subchapter E, Chapter 160, not earlier 
than the date the department estimates to be the 30th day after the 
child's date of birth.
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by this Act by the 
amendment of Sections 263.407(a) and (c), Family Code, applies to a 
child for whom the Department of Family and Protective Services 
assumes responsibility under Subchapter D, Chapter 262, Family 
Code, regardless of whether the department assumed responsibility 
for the child before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.