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.