1-1  By:  Moreno (Senate Sponsor - Montford)               H.B. No. 3196
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to fees received by a judge or justice for certain
    1-9  services.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Chapter 21, Government Code, is amended by adding
   1-12  Section 21.003 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 21.003.  FEE FOR MARRIAGE CEREMONY.  A judge or justice
   1-14  who performs a marriage ceremony under Section 1.83, Family Code,
   1-15  may receive, in addition to a salary, a fee, commission, or payment
   1-16  for performing a marriage ceremony.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 36.07, Penal Code, is amended by adding
   1-18  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-19        (d)  This section does not apply to a judge or justice who
   1-20  receives, in addition to a salary, a fee, commission, or payment
   1-21  for performing a marriage ceremony under Section 1.83, Family Code.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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