Court Opinions

State Laws

US Code

US Constitution

Texas Family Code - Section 162.302. Adoption Assistance Program

Legal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Family Code > Texas Family Code - Section 162.302. Adoption Assistance Program

§ 162.302. ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.  (a) The 
department shall administer a program designed to promote the 
adoption of children by providing information to prospective 
adoptive parents concerning the availability and needs of the 
children, assisting the parents in completing the adoption process, 
and providing adoption assistance necessary for the parents to 
adopt the children.
	(b)  The legislature intends that the program benefit 
children residing in foster homes at state or county expense by 
providing them with the stability and security of permanent homes 
and that the costs paid by the state and counties for foster home 
care for the children be reduced.
	(c)  The program shall be carried out by licensed 
child-placing agencies or county child-care or welfare units under 
rules adopted by the department.
	(d)  The department shall keep records necessary to evaluate 
the program's effectiveness in encouraging and promoting the 
adoption of children.
	(e)  It is the intent of the legislature that the department 
in providing adoption services, when it is in the children's best 
interest, keep siblings together and whenever possible place 
siblings in the same adoptive home.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 412, § 2, eff. Aug. 28, 
1995;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 744, § 1, eff. June 13, 2001.

Last modified: August 11, 2007