Amend CSHB 3774 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ___.  Subchapter H, Chapter 6, Family Code, is amended by adding Section 6.712 to read as follows:

Sec. 6.712.  DATE OF MARRIAGE REQUIREMENT IN FINAL DECREE. (a) In a suit for dissolution of a marriage in which the court grants a divorce, the court shall state the date of the marriage in the decree of divorce.

(b)  This section does not apply to a suit for dissolution of a marriage described by Section 2.401(a)(2).

SECTION ___.  The change in law made by Section 6.712, Family Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a suit for dissolution of a marriage filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit for dissolution of a marriage filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.