TITLE: Relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for child-placing agencies providing international adoption services.

SUMMARY: Relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for child-placing agencies providing international adoption services.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to requiring post-placement review and reporting for child-placing agencies providing international adoption services. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Human Resources Code, is amended by adding Subsection (h-2) to read as follows: (h-2) The minimum standards for the regulation of child-placing agencies licensed by the commission that provide international adoption services must require that, for a child adopted in a foreign country, the child-placing agency: (1) conduct a post-placement review; and (2) prepare at least two post-placement adoptive reports. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.