Tex. Est. Code § 1164.002 · Chapter 1164. LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN OR GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM
IMMUNITY OF GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A guardianship program is not liable for civil damages arising from an action taken or omission made by a person while providing guardianship services to a ward on behalf of the guardianship program, unless the action or omission was:
(1) wilfully wrongful;
(2) taken or made:
(A) with conscious indifference to or reckless disregard for the safety of the ward or another;
(B) in bad faith; or
(C) with malice; or
(3) grossly negligent.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.1164.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 046075248e2ca3ca18c351896bda66ec6f9efd850213e415e67eac7c867f4efb
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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