80R3253 JMM-D
 
  By: Laubenberg H.B. No. 585
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the jurisdiction of a probate court in certain
guardianship proceedings.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 154.309(c), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
       (c)  A court that obtains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction
of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship involving a
disabled person who is a child retains continuing, exclusive
jurisdiction of subsequent proceedings involving the person,
including proceedings after the person is an adult.
Notwithstanding this subsection and any other law, a probate court
may exercise jurisdiction in a guardianship proceeding for the
person after the person is an adult.
       SECTION 2.  Section 606, Texas Probate Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
       (k)  A statutory probate court or other court exercising the
jurisdiction of a probate court has jurisdiction in a guardianship
proceeding involving a disabled adult for whom another court
obtained continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in a suit affecting the
parent-child relationship when the person was a child.
       SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
guardianship proceeding pending in a trial court on or filed on or
after the effective date of this Act.
       SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.