Virginia House Bill 491 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Marriage license; authorization for marriage officiant. Allows the parties to a marriage to designate an officiant, who shall be 18 years of age or older and not a party to the marriage, on their application for a marriage license. The bill provides that a license issued with such designation shall serve as authorization for the named officiant to celebrate the rites of such marriage in the Commonwealth. Under current law, ministers and other persons except for judges need authorization from a judge or clerk to act as marriage officiants.

Marriage license; authorization for marriage officiant.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Del. Mark Levine [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2016-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102720D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB491
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB491+hil