The bill requires every licensed child-placing agency in Texas to post adoption cost information on its website. The posted information must include an itemized list of each cost tied to an adoption. Families looking to adopt can see what an agency charges before they sign up, starting September 1, 2025.
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Labels: QUICK READ: 99 WORDS. The bill as filed runs 99 words, counting the existing law it amends and the text it strikes. The median 89R bill as filed runs 441 words (derived, 8,702 graded bills, snapshot Oct 19, 2026).
relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a
licensed child-placing agency.
WHAT IT DOES
Itemized, every cost tied to an adoption.
The bill requires every licensed child-placing agency in Texas to post adoption cost information on its website. The posted information must include an itemized list of each cost tied to an adoption. Families looking to adopt can see what an agency charges before they sign up, starting September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
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Senator Parker moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 2306 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Parker moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 2306 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Voice vote. No numeric tally or individual yeas are inferred.
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Senator Parker moved to suspend the regular order of business to take up for consideration SB 2306 at this time on its second reading: SB 2306, Relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a licensed child-placing agency. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read second time and was passed to engrossment by a viva voce vote.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Parker moved to suspend the regular order of business to take up for consideration SB 2306 at this time on its second reading: SB 2306, Relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a licensed child-placing agency. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses3
For
3
Against
0
On
0
Names
For
Self1 registration
Texans Care for Children1 registration
Texas CASA1 registration
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3 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.
Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.
89R15626 KRM-D
By: Parker
S.B. No. 2306
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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