1-1  By:  Crabb (Senate Sponsor - Henderson)               H.B. No. 1754
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the authority to grant a waiver of the 72-hour waiting
    1-9  period for issuance of a marriage license.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Sections 1.82(c) and (d), Family Code, are
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  The marriage ceremony may not take place during a
   1-14  72-hour period immediately following the issuance of the marriage
   1-15  license unless:
   1-16              (1)  an applicant is a member of the armed forces of
   1-17  the United States and is on active duty; or
   1-18              (2)  an applicant obtains a waiver under <an order of a
   1-19  district court as provided by> Subsection (d) of this section.
   1-20        (d)  An applicant may request a judge of a district court or
   1-21  a statutory county court granted jurisdiction in family law cases
   1-22  and proceedings by Chapter 25, Government Code, a justice of the
   1-23  supreme court, or a judge of the court of criminal appeals or a
   1-24  court of appeals for a written waiver <an order> permitting the
   1-25  marriage ceremony to take place during a 72-hour period immediately
   1-26  following the issuance of the marriage license.  The judge shall
   1-27  execute the waiver <court may grant an early hearing on the request
   1-28  and shall grant the order> if the judge <court> finds that there is
   1-29  good cause for the marriage to take place during the 72-hour
   1-30  period.
   1-31        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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