By Allen                                              H.B. No. 1138
       74R4030 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a court authorized to waive the 72-hour waiting period
    1-3  following issuance of a marriage license.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 1.82(c) and (d), Family Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The marriage ceremony may not take place during a
    1-8  72-hour period immediately following the issuance of the marriage
    1-9  license unless:
   1-10              (1)  an applicant is a member of the armed forces of
   1-11  the United States and is on active duty; or
   1-12              (2)  an applicant obtains an order under <of a district
   1-13  court as provided by> Subsection (d) of this section.
   1-14        (d)  An applicant may request a district court, <or a>
   1-15  statutory county court <granted jurisdiction in family law cases
   1-16  and proceedings by Chapter 25, Government Code>, or justice court
   1-17  for an order permitting the marriage ceremony to take place during
   1-18  a 72-hour period immediately following the issuance of the marriage
   1-19  license.  The court may grant an early hearing on the request and
   1-20  shall grant the order if the court finds that there is good cause
   1-21  for the marriage to take place during the 72-hour period.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-23  applies only to a marriage ceremony for which the marriage license
   1-24  is issued on or after that date.
    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.