By Tillery                                            H.B. No. 1050
       74R4950 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appointment of a guardian with limited authority
    1-3  over a minor.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0025, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  The judge of a statutory probate court, pending the
    1-8  results of an investigation under Subsection (c), may appoint a
    1-9  guardian for a minor with limited authority to:
   1-10              (1)  make health care decisions for the minor;
   1-11              (2)  obtain health care for the minor; or
   1-12              (3)  obtain health care insurance for the minor,
   1-13  including covering the minor under the guardian's health insurance
   1-14  policy.
   1-15        (g)  The term of a guardian appointed under Subsection (f)
   1-16  expires on the earlier of:
   1-17              (1)  the expiration date of the term contained in the
   1-18  court order;
   1-19              (2)  the date the guardianship proceeding for the minor
   1-20  is dismissed by the court;
   1-21              (3)  the date the application for guardianship is
   1-22  withdrawn by the applicant; or
   1-23              (4)  the conclusion of a hearing on the application for
   1-24  guardianship of the minor.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and the
    2-2  change in law made by this Act applies only to proceedings for the
    2-3  appointment of a guardian instituted or pending on or after the
    2-4  effective date of this Act.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.