By Moreno                                             H.B. No. 3196
       74R9016 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to fees collected by a judge or justice for certain
    1-3  services.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 21, Government Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 21.003 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 21.003.  FEE FOR MARRIAGE CEREMONY.  A judge or justice
    1-8  who performs a marriage ceremony under Section 1.83, Family Code,
    1-9  may charge and collect a fee for that service.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 36.07, Penal Code, is amended by adding
   1-11  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-12        (d)  This section does not apply to a judge or justice who
   1-13  charges or collects a fee for a marriage ceremony under Section
   1-14  1.83, Family Code.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.