Bill Text: TX HB2278 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2278 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain current and retired associate judges to conduct a marriage ceremony.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2278 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2278-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2278




	AN ACT
	relating to authorizing certain current and retired associate
	judges to conduct a marriage ceremony.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2.202(a), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a
	marriage ceremony:
	(1) a licensed or ordained Christian minister or
	priest;
	(2) a Jewish rabbi;
	(3) a person who is an officer of a religious
	organization and who is authorized by the organization to conduct a
	marriage ceremony;
	(4) a justice of the supreme court, judge of the 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
	(5) a retired judge or magistrate of a federal court of
	this state.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2278 was passed by the House on April
	23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 2, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2278 was passed by the Senate on May
	27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor