H.B. No. 1195
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appointment of persons convicted of certain crimes
    1-3  as guardians.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 678, Texas Probate Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 678.  Presumption Concerning Best Interest.  It is
    1-8  presumed not to be in the best interests of a ward to appoint a
    1-9  person as guardian of the ward if the person has been finally
   1-10  convicted of any sexual offense, sexual assault, aggravated
   1-11  assault, aggravated sexual assault, injury to a child, to an
   1-12  elderly individual, or to a disabled individual, abandoning or
   1-13  endangering a child, or incest.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.