1-1  By:  Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Henderson)            H.B. No. 1195
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the appointment of persons convicted of certain crimes
    1-9  as guardians.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 678, Texas Probate Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 678.  Presumption Concerning Best Interest.  It is
   1-14  presumed not to be in the best interests of a ward to appoint a
   1-15  person as guardian of the ward if the person has been finally
   1-16  convicted of any sexual offense, sexual assault, aggravated
   1-17  assault, aggravated sexual assault, injury to a child, to an
   1-18  elderly individual, or to a disabled individual, abandoning or
   1-19  endangering a child, or incest.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-26  passage, and it is so enacted.
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