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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to adoption services of the Department of Family and |
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Protective Services with respect to sibling groups. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 162.302(e), Family Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(e) It is the intent of the legislature that the department |
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in providing adoption services, when it is in the children's best |
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interest, keep siblings together and whenever possible place |
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siblings in the same adoptive home. There is a rebuttable |
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presumption that removing a child from a home to place the child in |
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another home with a sibling is not in the child's best interest if |
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the child has never resided or had significant prior contact with |
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the sibling. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |