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Texas Family Code - Section 162.301. Definitions

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§ 162.301. DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:                                
		(1)  "Adoption assistance agreement" means a written 
agreement, binding on the parties to the agreement, between the 
department and the prospective adoptive parents that specifies the 
nature and amount of any payment, services, or assistance to be 
provided under the agreement and stipulates that the agreement will 
remain in effect without regard to the state in which the 
prospective adoptive parents reside at any particular time.
		(2)  "Child" means a child who cannot be placed for 
adoption with appropriate adoptive parents without the provision of 
adoption assistance because of factors including ethnic 
background, age, membership in a minority or sibling group, the 
presence of a medical condition, or a physical, mental, or 
emotional disability.
		(3)  "Department" means the Department of Protective 
and Regulatory Services.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 412, § 1, eff. Aug. 28, 
1995.

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