By Thompson H.B. No. 1540
74R5974 CLG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to bonds required of certain guardians.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 702, Texas Probate Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b), <and> (c), and
1-8 (d) of this section, a guardian of the person is required to give
1-9 bond.
1-10 (d) A court may exempt a guardian from giving a bond under
1-11 this section if the guardian is the ward's spouse, parent, sibling,
1-12 or child and the court determines it is in the ward's best interest
1-13 not to require the guardian to give the bond.
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.