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  By: Kolkhorst  S.B. No. 948
         (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2017; March 1, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
  Services; March 30, 2017, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain information provided to prospective adoptive
  parents by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 162, Family Code, is
  amended by adding Section 162.0086 to read as follows:
         Sec. 162.0086.  INFORMATION REGARDING SIBLING ACCESS.
  (a)  The Department of Family and Protective Services shall provide
  information to each person seeking to adopt a child placed for
  adoption by the department regarding the right of a child's sibling
  to file a suit for access to the child under Sections 102.0045 and
  153.551.
         (b)  The department may provide the information required
  under Subsection (a) on any form or application provided to
  prospective adoptive parents.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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