By:  Longoria                                         H.B. No. 1327
       73R3839 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to proceedings to prove certain informal marriages.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 1.91,  Family Code, is amended by
    1-5  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, a
    1-8  <(A)> proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved under this
    1-9  section must be commenced not later than one year after the date on
   1-10  which the relationship ended <or not later than one year after
   1-11  September 1, 1989, whichever is later>.
   1-12        (c)  A proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved under
   1-13  this section may be commenced at any time after the relationship
   1-14  ended if the parties to the proceeding are the parents of a living
   1-15  child conceived or adopted by them during the relationship.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-17  applies only to a proceeding to prove a marriage in which the
   1-18  relationship began or existed on or after the effective date of
   1-19  this Act.  A proceeding to prove a marriage in which the
   1-20  relationship ended before the effective date of this Act is
   1-21  governed by the law in effect at the time the relationship ended,
   1-22  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.