87R16782 MLH-D
 
  By: Ramos H.B. No. 3005
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3005:
 
  By:  Cook C.S.H.B. No. 3005
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of concealed
  divorce.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 6.109, Family Code, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 6.109.  CONCEALED DIVORCE. (a) The court may grant an
  annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if:
               (1)  the other party was divorced from a third party
  within the 30-day period preceding the date of the marriage
  ceremony;
               (2)  at the time of the marriage ceremony the
  petitioner did not know, and a reasonably prudent person would not
  have known, of the divorce; and
               (3)  [since] the petitioner ceased cohabitation with
  the other party not more than one year after the petitioner
  discovered or a reasonably prudent person would have discovered the
  fact of the divorce and [, the petitioner] has not voluntarily
  cohabited with the other party since ceasing cohabitation.
         (b)  A suit may not be brought under this section after the
  second [first] anniversary of the date of the marriage.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a suit for dissolution of a marriage that is 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.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.