By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 3130
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the judges empowered to waive the waiting period for a
 1-3     marriage ceremony.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2.204(c), Family  Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  An applicant may request a judge of a court with
 1-8     jurisdiction in family law cases, a justice of the supreme court, a
 1-9     judge of the court of criminal appeals, a county judge, or a judge
1-10     of a court of appeals for a written waiver  permitting the marriage
1-11     ceremony to take place during the 72-hour period immediately
1-12     following the issuance of the marriage license.  If the judge finds
1-13     that there is good cause for the marriage to take place during the
1-14     period, the judge shall sign the waiver.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-16     applies only to a written waiver permitting the marriage ceremony
1-17     to take place during the 72-hour period immediately following the
1-18     issuance of the marriage license that is executed on or after that
1-19     date.  A waiver executed before the effective date of this Act is
1-20     governed by the law in effect on the date the waiver was executed,
1-21     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.