 On 5 July 2013, the Austrian Parliament passed the "Adoptionsrechts-Änderungsgesetz 2013", allowing stepchild adoption by same-sex couples.The law entered into force on 1 August 2013.In January 2015, the Constitutional Court found the existing laws on adoption to be unconstitutional and ordered the laws to be changed by 31 December 2015 to allow joint adoption by same-sex couples.