By Crabb                                              H.B. No. 1754
       74R5324 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing any judge who is authorized to perform a
    1-3  marriage ceremony to waive the 72-hour waiting period.
    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 a waiver under <an order of a
   1-13  district court as provided by> Subsection (d) of this section.
   1-14        (d)  An applicant may request a judge authorized to conduct a
   1-15  marriage ceremony under Section 1.83(a)(4) to execute a written
   1-16  waiver  <district court or a statutory county court granted
   1-17  jurisdiction in family law cases and proceedings by Chapter 25,
   1-18  Government Code, for an order> permitting the marriage ceremony to
   1-19  take place during a 72-hour period immediately following the
   1-20  issuance of the marriage license.  The judge shall execute the
   1-21  waiver <court may grant an early hearing on the request and shall
   1-22  grant the order> if the judge <court> finds that there is good
   1-23  cause for the marriage to take place during the 72-hour period.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    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.