By Bivins S.B. No. 1478
75R1029 JMC-D
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.