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. 1-27 * * * * *