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.