By: Bosse H.B. No. 1593
73R6134 JMM-F
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 to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 1.91. Proof of Certain Informal Marriages. <(a)> In
1-7 any judicial, administrative, or other proceeding, the marriage of
1-8 a man and woman may be proved by evidence that:
1-9 (1) a declaration of their marriage has been executed
1-10 under Section 1.92 of this code; or
1-11 (2) they agreed to be married, and after the agreement
1-12 they lived together in this state as husband and wife and there
1-13 represented to others that they were married.
1-14 <(b) A proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved under
1-15 this section must be commenced not later than one year after the
1-16 date on which the relationship ended or not later than one year
1-17 after September 1, 1989, whichever is later.>
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-19 applies to a proceeding commenced to prove a marriage based on a
1-20 relationship that ended on or after September 1, 1992. A
1-21 proceeding to prove a marriage based on a relationship that ended
1-22 before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the
1-23 relationship ended, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-24 that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.