By: Laubenberg (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) H.B. No. 585
         (In the Senate - Received from the House March 26, 2007;
  March 29, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Jurisprudence; May 3, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 3, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
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.
 
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