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.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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; [and]
(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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