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Senate Bill 667 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: Vetoed |
House Sponsor: Smithee |
Senate Bill 667 amends the Government Code to require the Office of Court Administration to establish and maintain a guardianship compliance program designed to provide additional resources and assistance, including guardianship compliance specialists, to courts that have jurisdiction over guardianship proceedings and to provide for a court's participation in that program.
Governor's Reason for Veto: "This session the Legislature passed, and I have signed, several bills that improve the guardianship system in Texas. This is an important endeavor, and I look forward to seeing the effect of these needed reforms during the interim. Senate Bill 667 would have created a large new staff of state employees to oversee local guardianship arrangements at a cost of over $5 million a biennium. We should give the new statutory reforms a chance to work, and we should continue to look for cost-effective ways to address this challenge. The creation of a new state bureaucracy should be a last resort."