AN ACT
1-1 relating to the issuance of a marriage license.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 1.07, Family Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (c) On the proper execution of the application, the clerk
1-6 shall prepare the license. The clerk shall enter on the license
1-7 [On the reverse side of the license he shall enter] the names of
1-8 the licensees, the date that the license is issued, and the name of
1-9 the person appointed to act as proxy for an absent applicant, if
1-10 any.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1478 passed the Senate on
April 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1478 passed the House on
May 21, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor