| 1 | | - | By: Muñoz, Jr. (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 2278 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015; |
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| 3 | | - | May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State |
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| 4 | | - | Affairs; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 2278 |
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| 10 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 5 | | relating to authorizing certain current and retired associate |
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| 12 | 6 | | judges to conduct a marriage ceremony. |
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| 13 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Section 2.202(a), Family Code, is amended to |
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| 15 | 9 | | read as follows: |
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| 16 | 10 | | (a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a |
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| 17 | 11 | | marriage ceremony: |
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| 18 | 12 | | (1) a licensed or ordained Christian minister or |
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| 19 | 13 | | priest; |
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| 20 | 14 | | (2) a Jewish rabbi; |
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| 21 | 15 | | (3) a person who is an officer of a religious |
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| 22 | 16 | | organization and who is authorized by the organization to conduct a |
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| 23 | 17 | | marriage ceremony; |
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| 24 | 18 | | (4) a justice of the supreme court, judge of the court |
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| 25 | 19 | | of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge of the |
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| 26 | 20 | | district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county courts at |
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| 27 | 21 | | law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of the |
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| 28 | 22 | | juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts, justice |
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| 29 | 23 | | of the peace, retired justice of the peace, judge of a municipal |
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| 30 | 24 | | court, retired judge of a municipal court, associate judge of a |
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| 31 | 25 | | statutory probate court, retired associate judge of a statutory |
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| 32 | 26 | | probate court, associate judge of a county court at law, retired |
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| 33 | 27 | | associate judge of a county court at law, or judge or magistrate of |
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| 34 | 28 | | a federal court of this state; and |
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| 35 | 29 | | (5) a retired judge or magistrate of a federal court of |
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| 36 | 30 | | this state. |
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| 37 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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| 38 | | - | * * * * * |
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| 32 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 33 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 34 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2278 was passed by the House on April |
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| 35 | + | 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 2, 2 present, not |
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| 36 | + | voting. |
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| 37 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 38 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 39 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2278 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 40 | + | 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 41 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 42 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 43 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 44 | + | Date |
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| 45 | + | _____________________ |
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| 46 | + | Governor |
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