Bill Text: TX SB370 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain current and former members of the state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-20 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB370-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 370 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 11, 2013, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; | ||
| February 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 27, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain current and former members of the | ||
| state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2.202, Family Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-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, or judge or magistrate of a federal court of this state; | ||
| (5) a current member of the state legislature who has | ||
| served as a member of the legislature for not less than 20 years; or | ||
| (6) a former member of the state legislature who | ||
| served as a member of the legislature for not less than 20 years. | ||
| (a-1) A person authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony | ||
| under Subsection (a)(5) or (6) may not conduct more than 12 marriage | ||
| ceremonies in a 12-month period. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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