H.B. No. 336
    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(b), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (b)  If a <A> proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved
    1-7  under Subsection (a)(2) is not <this section must be> commenced
    1-8  before the second anniversary of <not later than one year after>
    1-9  the date on which the parties separated and ceased living together,
   1-10  it is rebuttably presumed that the parties did not enter into an
   1-11  agreement to be married <relationship ended or not later than one
   1-12  year after September 1, 1989, whichever is later>.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        (b)  The change in law made by this Act to a suit brought to
   1-15  prove the existence of an informal marriage applies only to a suit
   1-16  commenced on or after the effective date of this Act.  A suit
   1-17  commenced before that date is governed by the law in effect on the
   1-18  date the suit was commenced and the former law is continued in
   1-19  effect for that purpose.
   1-20        (c)  The change in law made by this Act to Section 1.91,
   1-21  Family Code, does not permit an action to be commenced on or after
   1-22  the effective date of this Act to prove the existence of an
   1-23  informal marriage for which an action was barred before the
   1-24  effective date of this Act for failure to bring the action before
    2-1  the first anniversary of the date the relationship ended.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.