Bill Text: TX HB2039 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-19 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2039 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2039-Engrossed.html
By: Talarico, Ramos, Turner of Tarrant, | H.B. No. 2039 | |
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relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 2.202(a), (b), and (b-1), Family Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a | ||
marriage ceremony: | ||
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organization to conduct a marriage ceremony; | ||
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court of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge | ||
of the district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county | ||
courts at law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of | ||
the juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts, | ||
justice of the peace, retired justice of the peace, judge of a | ||
municipal court, retired judge of a municipal court, associate | ||
judge of a statutory probate court, retired associate judge of a | ||
statutory probate court, associate judge of a county court at law, | ||
retired associate judge of a county court at law, or judge or | ||
magistrate of a federal court of this state; and | ||
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court of this state. | ||
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retired judge or justice is a former judge or justice who is vested | ||
in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial | ||
Retirement System of Texas Plan Two or who has an aggregate of at | ||
least 12 years of service as judge or justice of any type listed in | ||
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retired judge or magistrate is a former judge or magistrate of a | ||
federal court of this state who is fully vested in the Federal | ||
Employees Retirement System under 28 U.S.C. Section 371 or 377. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |