Bill Text: TX SB911 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the form of a marriage license and an application for a marriage license.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB911 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB911-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Huffman, et al. | S.B. No. 911 | |
| (Springer) | ||
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to the form of a marriage license and an application for a | ||
| marriage license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2.009, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) A license issued by a county clerk under this section | ||
| must identify the county in which the license is issued but may not | ||
| specify the name of the county clerk. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 194.0011(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall prescribe the | ||
| format and content of the department form used for the marriage | ||
| license application. The form: | ||
| (1) may not require that the name of the county clerk | ||
| appear on the application; and | ||
| (2) must require identification of the county in which | ||
| the application is submitted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2018. | ||
