By: Hartnett H.B. No. 1711 73R6376 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to guardian bonds and amounts expended for education and 1-3 maintenance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 236(b), Texas Probate Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) Court Approval of Previous Expenditures. When a 1-8 guardian has in good faith expended funds from the corpus of his 1-9 ward's estate for support and maintenance for the ward, and when it 1-10 is not convenient or possible to first secure approval of the 1-11 Court, if the proof is clear and convincing that such expenditures 1-12 were reasonable and proper and such that the Court would have 1-13 granted authority to make the expenditures out of the corpus, and 1-14 that the ward received the benefits of such expenditures, the 1-15 judge, in the exercise of his sound discretion, may approve such 1-16 expenditures in the same manner as if such expenditures were made 1-17 by the guardian out of the income from the ward's estate. 1-18 Provided, however, such expenditures for each ward may not exceed 1-19 the sum of $5,000 during an annual accounting period. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies to expenditures made on or after 1-21 its effective date. This Act may be applied, in the court's 1-22 discretion, as to any estates that are open as of the effective 1-23 date of this Act. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.