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| 1 | 1 | By: Seliger S.B. No. 322 | |
| 2 | - | (In the Senate - Filed April 25, 2017; April 25, 2017, read | |
| 3 | - | first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | |
| 4 | - | April 27, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | |
| 5 | - | Nays 0; April 27, 2017, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
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| 9 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 10 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 11 | 6 | relating to authorizing current and former members of the state | |
| 12 | 7 | legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony. | |
| 13 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 14 | - | SECTION 1. Section 2.202, Family Code, is amended by | |
| 15 | - | amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to | |
| 16 | - | read as follows: | |
| 9 | + | Section 1. Section 2.202(a), Family Code, is amended to read | |
| 10 | + | as follows: | |
| 17 | 11 | (a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a | |
| 18 | 12 | marriage ceremony: | |
| 19 | 13 | (1) a licensed or ordained Christian minister or | |
| 20 | 14 | priest; | |
| 21 | 15 | (2) a Jewish rabbi; | |
| 22 | 16 | (3) a person who is an officer of a religious | |
| 23 | - | organization and who is authorized by the organization to | |
| 24 | - | marriage | |
| 17 | + | organization and who is authorized by the organization to a | |
| 18 | + | marriage; | |
| 25 | 19 | (4) a justice of the supreme court, judge of the court | |
| 26 | 20 | of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge of the | |
| 27 | 21 | district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county courts at | |
| 28 | 22 | law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of the | |
| 29 | 23 | juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts, justice | |
| 30 | 24 | of the peace, retired justice of the peace, judge of a municipal | |
| 31 | - | court, retired judge of a municipal court, associate judge of a | |
| 32 | - | statutory probate court, retired associate judge of a statutory | |
| 33 | - | probate court, associate judge of a county court at law, retired | |
| 34 | - | associate judge of a county court at law, or judge or magistrate of | |
| 35 | - | a federal court of this state; [and] | |
| 25 | + | court, or judge or magistrate of a federal court of this state; | |
| 36 | 26 | (5) a retired judge or magistrate of a federal court of | |
| 37 | 27 | this state; and | |
| 38 | 28 | (6) a current or former member of the state | |
| 39 | 29 | legislature. | |
| 40 | 30 | (a-1) a person authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony | |
| 41 | - | under Subsection (a)(6) may not conduct more than three marriage | |
| 42 | - | ceremonies in a 12-month period. Conducting a marriage ceremony | |
| 43 | - | for a member of the armed services or a former member of the armed | |
| 44 | - | services shall not count toward the amount of ceremonies performed | |
| 45 | - | under this subsection. | |
| 31 | + | under Subsection (a)(6) may not conduct more than 3 marriage | |
| 32 | + | ceremonies in a 12-month period. | |
| 33 | + | (1) conducting a marriage ceremony for a member of the | |
| 34 | + | armed services or a former member of the armed services shall not | |
| 35 | + | count toward the amount of ceremonies performed under Subsection | |
| 36 | + | (a-1). | |
| 46 | 37 | (a-2) a person authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony | |
| 47 | 38 | under Subsection (a)(6) may not receive compensation for performing | |
| 48 | 39 | a marriage ceremony. | |
| 49 | 40 | SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 2017. | |
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