By Chisum H.B. No. 11 75R877 MJW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Family Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 2.25 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 2.25. RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. The state may 1-7 not give effect to a: 1-8 (1) public act, record, or judicial proceeding that 1-9 recognizes or validates a marriage between persons of the same sex; 1-10 or 1-11 (2) right or claim asserted as a result of the 1-12 marriage. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.