Amend CSHB 1399 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS 
of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 2.202(a), Family Code,  is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The following persons are authorized to conduct a 
marriage ceremony:    
		(1)  a licensed or ordained Christian minister or 
priest;                   
		(2)  a Jewish rabbi;                                                          
		(3)  a person who is an officer of a religious 
organization and who is authorized by the organization to conduct a 
marriage ceremony;  and
		(4)  a justice of the supreme court, judge of the court 
of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge of the 
district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county courts at 
law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of the 
juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts, justice 
of the peace, retired justice of the peace, judge of a municipal 
court, or judge or magistrate of a federal court of this state.
	SECTION ____.  Section 2.202(a), Family Code, as amended by 
this Act, applies only to a marriage ceremony that is conducted on 
or after the effective date of this Act.  A marriage ceremony 
conducted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the 
law in effect on the date the ceremony was conducted, and the former 
law is continued in effect for that purpose.