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Amend CSSB 11 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill as appropriate:
SECTION ____. Section 107.002(b-1), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b-1) In addition to the duties required by Subsection (b), a guardian ad litem appointed for a child in a proceeding under Chapter 262 or 263 shall:
(1) review the medical care provided to the child; [and]
(2) in a developmentally appropriate manner, seek to elicit the child's opinion on the medical care provided; and
(3) for a child at least 16 years of age, ascertain whether the child has received the following documents:
(A) a certified copy of the child's birth certificate;
(B) a social security card or a replacement social security card;
(C) a driver's license or personal identification certificate under Chapter 521, Transportation Code; and
(D) any other personal document the Department of Family and Protective Services determines appropriate.
SECTION ____. Section 107.003(b), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) In addition to the duties required by Subsection (a), an attorney ad litem appointed for a child in a proceeding under Chapter 262 or 263 shall:
(1) review the medical care provided to the child;
(2) in a developmentally appropriate manner, seek to elicit the child's opinion on the medical care provided; and
(3) for a child at least 16 years of age:
(A) [,] advise the child of the child's right to request the court to authorize the child to consent to the child's own medical care under Section 266.010; and
(B) ascertain whether the child has received the following documents:
(i) a certified copy of the child's birth certificate;
(ii) a social security card or a replacement social security card;
(iii) a driver's license or personal identification certificate under Chapter 521, Transportation Code; and
(iv) any other personal document the Department of Family and Protective Services determines appropriate.