| 1 | 1 | | By: Woolley (Senate Sponsor - Patrick) H.B. No. 2724 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2009; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 4, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Jurisprudence; May 15, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable |
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| 5 | 5 | | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; |
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| 6 | 6 | | May 15, 2009, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2724 By: Harris |
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| 10 | 10 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 12 | | relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 2.202(a), Family Code, is amended to |
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| 15 | 15 | | read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a |
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| 17 | 17 | | marriage ceremony: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) a licensed or ordained Christian minister or |
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| 19 | 19 | | priest; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) a Jewish rabbi; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (3) a person who is an officer of a religious |
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| 22 | 22 | | organization and who is authorized by the organization to conduct a |
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| 23 | 23 | | marriage ceremony; and |
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| 24 | 24 | | (4) a justice of the supreme court, judge of the court |
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| 25 | 25 | | of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge of the |
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| 26 | 26 | | district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county courts at |
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| 27 | 27 | | law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of the |
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| 28 | 28 | | juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts, justice |
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| 29 | 29 | | of the peace, retired justice of the peace, [or] judge or magistrate |
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| 30 | 30 | | of a federal court of this state, or current and former members of |
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| 31 | 31 | | the legislature of this state. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 33 | 33 | | to a marriage ceremony that is conducted on or after the effective |
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| 34 | 34 | | date of this Act. A marriage ceremony conducted before the |
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| 35 | 35 | | effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the |
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| 36 | 36 | | date the ceremony was conducted, and the former law is continued in |
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| 37 | 37 | | effect for that purpose. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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| 39 | 39 | | * * * * * |
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