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.