Bill Text: TX SB1317 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to persons authorized to perform a marriage ceremony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1317-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1317 |
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relating to persons authorized to perform a marriage ceremony. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2.201, Family Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 2.201. EXPIRATION OF LICENSE. If a marriage ceremony | ||
has not been conducted before the 90th [ |
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license is issued, the marriage license expires. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2.202, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) 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; [ |
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(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, 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. | ||
(b) For the purposes of Subsection (a)(4) [ |
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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 | ||
Subsection (a)(4). | ||
(b-1) For the purposes of Subsection (a)(5), a 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 3. Section 2.201, Family Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to a marriage license that is issued on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A marriage license issued before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | ||
the date the license was issued, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 2.202, Family Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies 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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1317 passed the Senate on | ||
April 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2013, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1317 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148, | ||
Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |