By Hartnett H.B. No. 891 75R840 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the age of a person who may be married without 1-3 formalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1.91, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A person under 17 years of age may not: 1-8 (1) be a party to an informal marriage; or 1-9 (2) execute a declaration of informal marriage under 1-10 Section 1.92. 1-11 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act, as it relates 1-12 to a suit brought to prove the existence of an informal marriage, 1-13 applies only to a suit commenced on or after the effective date of 1-14 this Act. A suit commenced before that date is governed by the law 1-15 in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law is 1-16 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.