Tex. Penal Code § 25.09 · Chapter 25. OFFENSES AGAINST THE FAMILY
ADVERTISING FOR PLACEMENT OF CHILD.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person advertises in the public media that the person will place, provide, or obtain a child for adoption or any other form of permanent physical custody of the child.
(b) This section does not apply to a licensed child-placing agency that is identified in the advertisement as a licensed child-placing agency.
(c) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the person has been convicted previously under this section, in which event the offense is a felony of the third degree.
(d) In this section:
(1) "Child" has the meaning assigned by Section 101.003, Family Code.
(2) "Public media" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.01. The term also includes communications through the use of the Internet or another public computer network.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 561, Sec. 31, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 985 (H.B. 834), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.25.htm
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