By: Lucio  S.B. No. 370
         (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 11, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  February 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to authorizing certain current and former members of the
  state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2.202, Family Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) 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;
               (5)  a current member of the state legislature who has
  served as a member of the legislature for not less than 20 years; or
               (6)  a former member of the state legislature who
  served as a member of the legislature for not less than 20 years.
         (a-1)  A person authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony
  under Subsection (a)(5) or (6) may not conduct more than 12 marriage
  ceremonies in a 12-month period.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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