1-1     By:  Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)               H.B. No. 3130
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 12, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Harris
 1-7           Amend H.B. No. 3130 as follows:
 1-8           On page 1, line 26, after "the judge shall sign the waiver.",
 1-9     insert the following:
1-10     "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a judge under this
1-11     section has the authority to sign a waiver under this section."
1-12                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-13                                   AN ACT
1-14     relating to the judges empowered to waive the waiting period for a
1-15     marriage ceremony.
1-16           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-17           SECTION 1.  Section 2.204(c), Family  Code, is amended to
1-18     read as follows:
1-19           (c)  An applicant may request a judge of a court with
1-20     jurisdiction in family law cases, a justice of the supreme court, a
1-21     judge of the court of criminal appeals, a county judge, or a judge
1-22     of a court of appeals for a written waiver  permitting the marriage
1-23     ceremony to take place during the 72-hour period immediately
1-24     following the issuance of the marriage license.  If the judge finds
1-25     that there is good cause for the marriage to take place during the
1-26     period, the judge shall sign the waiver.
1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-28     applies only to a written waiver permitting the marriage ceremony
1-29     to take place during the 72-hour period immediately following the
1-30     issuance of the marriage license that is executed on or after that
1-31     date.  A waiver executed before the effective date of this Act is
1-32     governed by the law in effect on the date the waiver was executed,
1-33     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-34           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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