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Committee reviews guardianship background-check cleanup bill (SB 2342); judge and stakeholders support clarifications
Summary
Senate Bill 2342 would refine criminal-history and contact-information requirements for guardianship applications, shifting some responsibilities to guardians or applicants and clarifying which caregivers must be screened; a county judge and the Texas Guardianship Association urged the cleanup to fix implementation problems.
Senate Bill 2342, presented to the Committee on Jurisprudence by the dean of the Senate, would change the information required in guardianship applications and narrow who is subject to criminal-history screenings.
The dean explained the bill as a "cleanup bill requested by the Texas Guardianship Association" to resolve ambiguities that led to overly broad background…
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