Bill Text: TX HB818 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct certain marriage ceremonies and collect a related fee; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB818 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB818-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Cortez | H.B. No. 818 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 818: | |||
By: Neave | C.S.H.B. No. 818 |
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relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to | ||
conduct certain marriage ceremonies and collect a related fee; | ||
authorizing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2.202, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For a marriage ceremony in which a participant is a | ||
member of the United States armed forces in active-duty status and | ||
which is performed in a county with a population of at least 1.7 | ||
million that contains a municipality in which at least 75 percent of | ||
the county's population resides, the county clerk and any deputy | ||
clerk appointed by the clerk are authorized to conduct the | ||
ceremony. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.402, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) In a county to which Section 2.202(a-1), Family Code, | ||
applies, the county clerk and any deputy clerk appointed by the | ||
clerk may conduct a marriage ceremony for a member of the United | ||
States armed forces in active-duty status. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter G, Chapter 51, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.6045 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.6045. MARRIAGE CEREMONY FEE. A clerk or deputy | ||
clerk who conducts a marriage ceremony under Section 51.402(a-1) | ||
shall collect a $25 fee for conducting the ceremony. The clerk or | ||
deputy clerk shall deposit the fee in the county treasury to be used | ||
by the county only to fund charitable organizations that: | ||
(1) assist or provide care for victims of family | ||
violence or of child abuse or neglect; or | ||
(2) provide family violence prevention services. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a marriage ceremony that is conducted on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. A marriage ceremony conducted before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
ceremony was conducted, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |