By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 941
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to eligibility for assignment of former or retired
 1-3     statutory probate judges as visiting judges.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (x), Section 25.0022, Government Code,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (x)  To be eligible for assignment under this section a
 1-8     former or retired judge of a statutory probate court must:
 1-9                 (1)  not have been removed from office; [and]
1-10                 (2)  certify under oath to the presiding judge, on a
1-11     form prescribed by the state board of regional judges, that the
1-12     judge did not resign from office after having received notice that
1-13     formal proceedings by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct had
1-14     been instituted as provided in Section 33.022 and before the final
1-15     disposition of the proceedings;
1-16                 (3)  certify to the presiding judge a willingness not
1-17     to appear and plead as an attorney in any court in the judge's
1-18     county of residence or a contiguous county for a period of two
1-19     years; and
1-20                 (4)  certify to the presiding judge a willingness not
1-21     to accept appointment as a guardian ad litem, guardian of the
1-22     estate of an incapacitated person, or guardian of the person of an
1-23     incapacitated person in any court in the judge's county of
1-24     residence or a contiguous county for a period of two years.
1-25           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
 2-1     only to the assignment of a former or retired statutory probate
 2-2     judge as a visiting judge on or after the effective date of this
 2-3     Act.
 2-4           (b)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.