By Lindsay S.B. No. 869
77R7345 MTB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the service of citation for an application for
1-3 guardianship.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 633(c), Texas Probate Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) The sheriff or other officer shall personally serve
1-8 citation to appear and answer the application for guardianship on:
1-9 (1) a proposed ward who is 12 years of age or older;
1-10 (2) the parents of a proposed ward if the whereabouts
1-11 of the parents are known or can be reasonably ascertained;
1-12 (3) any court-appointed conservator or person having
1-13 control of the care and welfare of the proposed ward; [and]
1-14 (4) a proposed ward's spouse if the whereabouts of the
1-15 spouse are known or can be reasonably ascertained; and
1-16 (5) [(6)] the person named in the application to be
1-17 appointed guardian, if that person is not the applicant.
1-18 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-19 633(c), Texas Probate Code, applies only to an application for the
1-20 appointment of a guardian filed on or after the effective date of
1-21 this Act. An application for the appointment of a guardian that is
1-22 filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
1-23 in effect on the date on which the application was filed, and the
1-24 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.