By:  Maxey                                             H.B. No. 615
       73R1125 MJW-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of marriage licenses.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 1.01, Family Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        Sec. 1.01.  MARRIAGE LICENSE.  Two individuals <A man and a
    1-7  woman> desiring to enter into a ceremonial marriage shall obtain a
    1-8  marriage license from the county clerk of any county of this state.
    1-9  <A license may not be issued for the marriage of persons of the
   1-10  same sex.>
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.