By: Parker  S.B. No. 2306
         (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
  April 28, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 0; April 28, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a
  licensed child-placing agency.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 162, Family Code, is
  amended by adding Section 162.605 to read as follows:
         Sec. 162.605.  INFORMATION REGARDING ADOPTION COSTS. A
  licensed child-placing agency shall post on its Internet website
  information regarding adoption costs.  The information must include
  an itemized list of each cost associated with an adoption.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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