1-1     By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1478

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 20, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     April 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the issuance of a marriage license.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 1.07, Family Code, is

1-11     amended to read as follows:

1-12           (c)  On the proper execution of the application, the clerk

1-13     shall prepare the license.  The clerk shall enter on the license

1-14     [On the reverse side of the license he shall enter] the names of

1-15     the licensees, the date that the license is issued, and the name of

1-16     the person appointed to act as proxy for an absent applicant, if

1-17     any.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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