By Bivins                                       S.B. No. 1478

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the issuance of a marriage license.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 1.07(c), Family Code, is amended to read

 1-5     as follows:

 1-6           (c)  On the proper execution of the application, the clerk

 1-7     shall prepare the license.  The clerk shall enter on the license

 1-8     [On the reverse side of the license he shall enter] the names of

 1-9     the licensees, the date that the license is issued, and the name of

1-10     the person appointed to act as proxy for an absent applicant, if

1-11     any.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.