Amend CSSB 758 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
SECTION ____. (a) Section 102.005, Family Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 102.005. STANDING TO REQUEST TERMINATION AND
ADOPTION. An original suit requesting only an adoption or for
termination of the parent-child relationship joined with a petition
for adoption may be filed by:
(1) a stepparent of the child;
(2) an adult who, as the result of a placement for
adoption, has had actual possession and control of the child at any
time during the 30-day period preceding the filing of the petition;
(3) an adult who has had actual possession and control
of the child for not less than two months during the three-month
period preceding the filing of the petition; [or]
(4) an adult who has adopted, or is the foster parent
of and has petitioned to adopt, a sibling of the child; or
(5) another adult whom the court determines to have
had substantial past contact with the child sufficient to warrant
standing to do so.
(b) The change in law made by this section applies only to a
suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after the
effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child
relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.