1-1     By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 941
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2001; February 28, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 11, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 11, 2001,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 941                  By:  Jackson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to eligibility for assignment of former or retired
1-11     statutory probate judges as visiting judges.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (x), Section 25.0022, Government Code,
1-14     is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (x)  To be eligible for assignment under this section a
1-16     former or retired judge of a statutory probate court must:
1-17                 (1)  not have been removed from office; [and]
1-18                 (2)  certify under oath to the presiding judge, on a
1-19     form prescribed by the state board of regional judges, that the
1-20     judge did not resign from office after having received notice that
1-21     formal proceedings by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct had
1-22     been instituted as provided in Section 33.022 and before the final
1-23     disposition of the proceedings;
1-24                 (3)  certify to the presiding judge a willingness not
1-25     to appear and plead as an attorney in any court in the judge's
1-26     county of residence or a contiguous county for a period of two
1-27     years; and
1-28                 (4)  certify to the presiding judge a willingness not
1-29     to accept appointment as a guardian ad litem, guardian of the
1-30     estate of an incapacitated person, or guardian of the person of an
1-31     incapacitated person in any court in the judge's county of
1-32     residence or a contiguous county for a period of two years.
1-33           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-34     only to the assignment of a former or retired statutory probate
1-35     judge as a visiting judge on or after the effective date of this
1-36     Act.
1-37           (b)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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