H.B. No. 3135

GUARDIAN'S APPLICATION FOR VOLUNTARY MENTAL RETARDATION SERVICES

Effective Date: September 1, 1997

AN ACT

relating to the application for mental retardation services by a guardian and to eligibility for guardianship.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1.  Section 593.021, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 593.021.  Application for Voluntary Services. (a)  The proposed client or[,] the parent if the proposed client is a minor[, or the guardian of the person] may apply for voluntary mental retardation services under Section 593.022, 593.026, 593.027, 593.0275, or 593.028 [593.024].

(b)  The guardian of the proposed client may apply for services under this subchapter under Section 593.022, 593.027, 593.0275, or 593.028.

SECTION 2.  Section 691, Texas Probate Code, is repealed.

SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and applies only to an application for mental retardation services made on or after that date.

SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.


Courtesy of Glenn M. Karisch, Ikard & Golden, P. C., Austin, Texas. This page was last revised on May 26, 1997.