1-1     By:  Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)             H.B. No. 3135

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the application for mental retardation services by a

 1-9     guardian and to eligibility for guardianship.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 593.021, Health and Safety Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 593.021.  Application for Voluntary Services.  (a)  The

1-14     proposed client or[,] the parent if the proposed client is a

1-15     minor[, or the guardian of the person] may apply for voluntary

1-16     mental retardation services under Section 593.022, 593.026,

1-17     593.027, 593.0275, or 593.028 [593.024].

1-18           (b)  The guardian of the proposed client may apply for

1-19     services under this subchapter under Section 593.022, 593.027,

1-20     593.0275, or 593.028.

1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 691, Texas Probate Code, is repealed.

1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-23     applies only to an application for mental retardation services made

1-24     on or after that date.

1-25           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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