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Bill	Session	Author & Sponsor	Caption	Committees	Last action	Subjects
HB 907	88-0 (2023)	Author: Moody, Joe Sponsor: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/23	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 924	88-0 (2023)	Author: Rosenthal, Jon \| et. al.	Relating to the age at which a person in this state may marry.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 942	88-0 (2023)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to certain persons who are disqualified from serving as the personal representative of a decedent's estate.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 970	88-0 (2023)	Author: Zwiener, Erin	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| Minors--Crimes Against
HB 980	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David	Relating to the privilege against disclosure of certain collaborative family law communications.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1546	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David	Relating to the recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1547	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to claims for reimbursement between marital estates.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/23	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 1685	88-0 (2023)	Author: Hernandez, Ana	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 1884	88-0 (2023)	Author: Bhojani, Salman \| et. al.	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 2067	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David \| et. al.	Relating to the jurisdiction of a court in a suit to divide certain property not divided or awarded on the dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2070	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David \| et. al. Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the continuation of spousal maintenance ordered under certain circumstances.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2091	88-0 (2023)	Author: Manuel, Christian \| et. al.	Relating to the confidentiality of certain information on a marriage license, an application for a marriage license, and a declaration of informal marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| County Government--General \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Protection of Personal Information
HB 2094	88-0 (2023)	Author: Manuel, Christian \| et. al.	Relating to a court order for the exclusive occupancy of the primary residence by a spouse during the pendency of a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Placed on General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 2268	88-0 (2023)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to matters referred to an associate judge under the Family Code.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 2671	88-0 (2023)	Author: Cook, David \| et. al. Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to the postponement of a hearing for a temporary order in certain family law cases referred to mediation.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/23	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MEDIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, & ARBITRATION
HB 2852	88-0 (2023)	Author: Smith, Reggie \| et. al.	Relating to the control by certain persons of the disposition of a decedent's remains.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General
HB 2889	88-0 (2023)	Author: Slaton, Bryan	Relating to a credit against the ad valorem taxes imposed by a taxing unit on the residence homestead of a married couple that increases in amount based upon the number of children of the couple and reimbursement to taxing units for the revenue loss incurred as a result of the credit.	House: Ways & Means	Referred to Ways & Means	\| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Taxation--Property-Appraisals & Appraisal Districts \| Taxation--Property-Exemptions
HB 3431	88-0 (2023)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to certain void marriages.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Removed from local & uncontested calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3754	88-0 (2023)	Author: Talarico, James	Relating to a suit for dissolution of a marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH
HB 3905	88-0 (2023)	Author: Morales, Eddie	Relating to the eligibility to act as a supervisor in certain counties for an applicant for a license as a professional counselor.	House: Human Services	Referred to Human Services	\| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TEXAS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
HB 3918	88-0 (2023)	Author: Rosenthal, Jon \| et. al.	Relating to the prohibition, prevention, and remedying of certain discrimination.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES \| CHILD CUSTODY \| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Courts--General \| DISCRIMINATION \| EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS \| Education--School Districts \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| FATHER'S DAY \| GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION \| Housing--General \| Religion \| SEXUAL ORIENTATION \| STAFF DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS \| WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
HB 4062	88-0 (2023)	Author: Harris, Cody Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to creating an audiovisual recording of an interview of a child by a child custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/23	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| Electronic Information Systems \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| VIDEOTAPE & FILM
HB 4075	88-0 (2023)	Author: Romero, Ramon	Relating to the regulation of certain occupations by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council; authorizing fees.	House: Human Services Senate: Health & Human Services	Referred to Health & Human Services	\| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TEXAS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS, TEXAS ST. BD. OF EXAMINERS OF \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
HB 4183	88-0 (2023)	Author: Price, Four \| et. al. Sponsor: Sparks, Kevin \| et. al.	Relating to a waiver of the waiting period for a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/23	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 5031	88-0 (2023)	Author: Bryant, John \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Health--General \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 5291	88-0 (2023)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to an agreed divorce order in a suit for dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HJR 61	88-0 (2023)	Author: Johnson, Julie	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HJR 128	88-0 (2023)	Author: Slaton, Bryan	Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for a credit against the ad valorem taxes imposed by a political subdivision on the residence homestead of a married couple that may be increased based on the number of children of the couple and to provide for the reimbursement of political subdivisions for the revenue loss incurred as a result of the credit.	House: Ways & Means	Referred to Ways & Means	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Taxation--Property-Appraisals & Appraisal Districts \| Taxation--Property-Exemptions
HJR 143	88-0 (2023)	Author: Bryant, John \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for equality under the law regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Courts--General \| Education--School Districts \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| GENDER IDENTITY & EXPRESSION \| Housing--General \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SEXUAL ORIENTATION
SB 80	88-0 (2023)	Author: Johnson, Nathan	Relating to a suit for dissolution of marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH
SB 81	88-0 (2023)	Author: Johnson, Nathan	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| Minors--Crimes Against \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 82	88-0 (2023)	Author: Johnson, Nathan	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| Minors--Crimes Against
SB 111	88-0 (2023)	Author: Menéndez, José \| et. al.	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	Senate: State Affairs	Co-author authorized	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| Minors--Crimes Against
SB 235	88-0 (2023)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 486	88-0 (2023)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the waiting period following the issuance of a marriage license and the annulment of a marriage on grounds relating to that waiting period.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 794	88-0 (2023)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 1491	88-0 (2023)	Author: Miles, Borris	Relating to the licensing in this state of a person licensed in another jurisdiction to practice psychology, marriage and family therapy, or professional counseling.	Senate: Health & Human Services	Referred to Health & Human Services	\| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TEXAS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Mental Health & Substance Abuse \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations \| PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS \| PSYCHOLOGISTS
SB 1493	88-0 (2023)	Author: Miles, Borris	Relating to the licensing in this state of a person licensed in another jurisdiction to practice marriage and family therapy or professional counseling.	Senate: Health & Human Services	Referred to Health & Human Services	\| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TEXAS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations \| PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
SJR 15	88-0 (2023)	Author: Johnson, Nathan \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Co-author authorized	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HB 451	87-0 (2021)	Author: Moody, Joe Sponsor: Blanco, César	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Removed from local & uncontested calendar	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 675	87-0 (2021)	Author: Ramos, Ana-Maria \| et. al.	Relating to the participation of armed forces members in a marriage ceremony through video conference technology.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| Military & Veterans \| VIDEOCONFERENCING
HB 865	87-0 (2021)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to spousal maintenance.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 867	87-0 (2021)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al. Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan \| et. al.	Relating to the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order for the payment of spousal maintenance and child support obligations.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/21	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1013	87-0 (2021)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to a requirement that a decree of divorce include the date of the marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Removed from local & uncontested calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1037	87-0 (2021)	Author: Beckley, Michelle \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
HB 1112	87-0 (2021)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the mandatory transfer of certain protective orders that affect a party's right to possession of or access to a child.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 1590	87-0 (2021)	Author: Rosenthal, Jon	Relating to the age at which a person in this state may marry.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1849	87-0 (2021)	Author: Sanford, Scott \| et. al. Sponsor: Paxton, Angela	Relating to the modification of an order establishing the conservatorship or possession of or access to a child after a conservator's death.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/21	\| CONSERVATORSHIP \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2039	87-0 (2021)	Author: Talarico, James \| et. al.	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Religion
HB 2479	87-0 (2021)	Author: Pacheco, Leo	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Governor \| Legislature \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| State Officers
HB 2923	87-0 (2021)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to certain persons who are disqualified from serving as the personal representative of a decedent's estate.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 3005	87-0 (2021)	Author: Ramos, Ana-Maria	Relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of concealed divorce.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3007	87-0 (2021)	Author: Ramos, Ana-Maria	Relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of fraud, duress, or force.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3008	87-0 (2021)	Author: Ramos, Ana-Maria	Relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of impotency.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3118	87-0 (2021)	Author: Morales, Eddie	Relating to the eligibility to act as a supervisor in certain counties for an applicant for a license as a professional counselor.	House: Public Health	Referred to Public Health	\| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TEXAS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations \| PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
HB 3187	87-0 (2021)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3188	87-0 (2021)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to a divorce on the ground of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3190	87-0 (2021)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 4271	87-0 (2021)	Author: Schaefer, Matt	Relating to the administration of public institutions of higher education, including certain restrictions on hiring and tenure decisions, curriculum, and involvement in litigation.	House: Higher Education	Referred to Higher Education	\| Abortion \| Aliens \| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| DISCRIMINATION \| Education--Higher--Faculty \| Education--Higher--Health Institutions \| Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Employees
HJR 58	87-0 (2021)	Author: Beckley, Michelle	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 159	87-0 (2021)	Author: González, Mary	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 129	87-0 (2021)	Author: Johnson, Nathan	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| Minors--Crimes Against \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 261	87-0 (2021)	Author: Menéndez, José \| et. al.	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	Senate: State Affairs	Co-author authorized	\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| SEX EDUCATION
SB 733	87-0 (2021)	Author: Paxton, Angela	Relating to the modification of an order establishing the conservatorship or possession of or access to a child after a conservator's death.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| CONSERVATORSHIP \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 738	87-0 (2021)	Author: Birdwell, Brian	Relating to the right of recusal from the performance of certain marriage ceremonies.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Religion
SB 907	87-0 (2021)	Author: Perry, Charles Sponsor: Lambert, Stan	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license through the use of remote technology.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/21	\| Electronic Information Systems \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| TEXAS JUDICIAL COUNCIL
SB 1475	87-0 (2021)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order for the payment of spousal maintenance and child support obligations.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 1476	87-0 (2021)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the admission by a party of a material and substantial change of circumstances in a motion to modify an order in certain family law cases.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| CONSERVATORSHIP \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 554	86-0 (2019)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Huffman, Joan \| et. al.	Relating to temporary orders during the pendency of an appeal in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/19	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 559	86-0 (2019)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Huffman, Joan \| et. al.	Relating to written agreements incident to divorce or annulment.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective immediately	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 922	86-0 (2019)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to a divorce on the ground of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 926	86-0 (2019)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 978	86-0 (2019)	Author: Beckley, Michelle \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
HB 1478	86-0 (2019)	Author: Rosenthal, Jon	Relating to a prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions and certain employment agreements limiting reproductive decisions.	House: International Relations & Economic Development	Left pending in committee	\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| Labor--General \| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH \| Women \| WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
HB 1572	86-0 (2019)	Author: Moody, Joe \| et. al.	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Reported favorably as substituted	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1689	86-0 (2019)	Author: Deshotel, Joe Sponsor: Miles, Borris	Relating to disclosure regarding the existence of a gestational agreement in a suit for the dissolution of a marriage and standing of an intended parent under a gestational agreement to file a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/19	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2109	86-0 (2019)	Author: Flynn, Dan \| et. al.	Relating to the right of recusal from the performance of certain marriage ceremonies.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Religion
HB 2767	86-0 (2019)	Author: Martinez Fischer, Trey Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to the delivery of a recorded marriage license by e-mail.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/19	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Electronic Information Systems \| EMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 3172	86-0 (2019)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the protection of membership in and support to religious organizations.	House: State Affairs	Returned to committee	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| City Government--Employees/Officers \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| State Employees
HB 3595	86-0 (2019)	Author: Sanford, Scott	Relating to the modification of an order establishing the conservatorship or possession of or access to a child after a conservator's death.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| Alcoholism & Drug Abuse \| CONSERVATORSHIP \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3879	86-0 (2019)	Author: Ramos, Ana-Maria \| et. al.	Relating to the participation of armed forces members in a marriage ceremony through video conference technology.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Veteran Affairs & Border Security	Referred to Vet Affairs & Border Security	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Military & Veterans \| VIDEOCONFERENCING
HJR 64	86-0 (2019)	Author: Beckley, Michelle \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 114	86-0 (2019)	Author: Menéndez, José	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
SB 153	86-0 (2019)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
SB 261	86-0 (2019)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to written agreements incident to divorce or annulment.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 265	86-0 (2019)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to temporary orders during the pendency of an appeal in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 1009	86-0 (2019)	Author: Birdwell, Brian	Relating to the right of recusal from the performance of certain marriage ceremonies.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Religion
SB 1204	86-0 (2019)	Author: Miles, Borris	Relating to disclosure regarding the existence of a gestational agreement in a suit for the dissolution of a marriage and standing of an intended parent under a gestational agreement to file a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 1978	86-0 (2019)	Author: Hughes, Bryan \| et. al. Sponsor: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the protection of membership in, affiliation with, and support provided to religious organizations.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/19	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| City Government--Employees/Officers \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| State Employees
SJR 9	86-0 (2019)	Author: Rodríguez, José \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 65	85-0 (2017)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 93	85-0 (2017)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to a divorce on the ground of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 498	85-0 (2017)	Author: Fallon, Pat	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| FORUM NON CONVENIENS
HB 555	85-0 (2017)	Author: Springer, Drew \| et. al. Sponsor: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to an additional fee for issuing a marriage license to applicants who are not residents of this state and the form of a marriage license and application for a marriage license.	House: County Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective immediately	\| County Government--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 573	85-0 (2017)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
HB 730	85-0 (2017)	Author: Bohac, Dwayne	Relating to a disclosure by an attorney before accepting representation of a client in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Lawyers \| STATE BAR OF TEXAS
HB 818	85-0 (2017)	Author: Cortez, Philip	Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct certain marriage ceremonies and collect a related fee; authorizing a fee.	House: County Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Military & Veterans
HB 974	85-0 (2017)	Author: Cortez, Philip	Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct a marriage ceremony and collect a related fee; authorizing a fee.	House: County Affairs	Referred to County Affairs	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 995	85-0 (2017)	Author: Wray, John \| et. al. Sponsor: Rodríguez, José	Relating to the form and revocation of medical powers of attorney.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: State Affairs	See remarks for effective date	\| ADVANCE DIRECTIVES \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| Health Care Providers \| Health--General \| Health--Privacy/Use of Information
HB 1216	85-0 (2017)	Author: Deshotel, Joe \| et. al.	Relating to disclosure regarding the existence of a gestational agreement in a suit for the dissolution of a marriage and standing of an intended parent under a gestational agreement to file a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH
HB 1617	85-0 (2017)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to procedures in a suit for dissolution of a marriage or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1663	85-0 (2017)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| FATHER'S DAY \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 1813	85-0 (2017)	Author: Flynn, Dan \| et. al.	Relating to issuing a marriage license and conducting a marriage ceremony.	House: State Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| County Government--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1823	85-0 (2017)	Author: Canales, Terry Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith \| et. al.	Relating to properly recorded diacritical marks in vital statistics records, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and personal identification certificates.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/17	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF \| Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 1923	85-0 (2017)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the protection of religious beliefs and moral convictions regarding marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| City Government--Employees/Officers \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| State Employees
HB 2310	85-0 (2017)	Author: Muñoz, Jr., Sergio	Relating to authorizing the county clerk to conduct a marriage ceremony and collect a related fee; authorizing a fee.	House: County Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 2795	85-0 (2017)	Author: Lang, Mike \| et. al.	Relating to issuing a marriage license and conducting a marriage ceremony.	House: County Affairs	Referred to County Affairs	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 2876	85-0 (2017)	Author: Sanford, Scott \| et. al.	Relating to the rights of wedding industry professionals and their employees in connection with the provision of goods, services, and facilities that would violate a sincerely held religious belief.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Business & Commerce--General \| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion
HB 3507	85-0 (2017)	Author: Anderson, Rodney	Relating to educational information regarding co-parenting on dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3932	85-0 (2017)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license and the marriage of a minor.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--Child Services \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General
HB 4203	85-0 (2017)	Author: Swanson, Valoree	Relating to rights to certain benefits accrued in the Texas County and District Retirement System.	House: Pensions	Transferred to Calendars Committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--County & District \| Retirement Systems--General
HR 2610	85-0 (2017)	Author: Springer, Drew	Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 555.		Reported enrolled	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Resolutions--Conf. Comm. Reports
SB 157	85-0 (2017)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan \| et. al.	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect same-sex marriages, including the repeal of the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between two persons of the same sex.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 236	85-0 (2017)	Author: Menéndez, José	Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HOMOSEXUALITY \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 251	85-0 (2017)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEX EDUCATION
SB 454	85-0 (2017)	Author: Perry, Charles \| et. al.	Relating to certain protective orders in a suit for dissolution of marriage or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, including a proceeding to adjudicate parentage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
SB 512	85-0 (2017)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to the form and revocation of medical powers of attorney.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| ADVANCE DIRECTIVES \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| Health Care Providers \| Health--General \| Health--Privacy/Use of Information
SB 522	85-0 (2017)	Author: Birdwell, Brian \| et. al. Sponsor: Flynn, Dan \| et. al.	Relating to issuing a marriage license and conducting a marriage ceremony.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| County Government--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 893	85-0 (2017)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the protection of religious beliefs and moral convictions regarding marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| City Government--Employees/Officers \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| State Employees
SB 911	85-0 (2017)	Author: Huffman, Joan \| et. al. Sponsor: Springer, Drew	Relating to the form of a marriage license and an application for a marriage license.	House: County Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 1237	85-0 (2017)	Author: Rodríguez, José Sponsor: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to procedures in a suit for dissolution of a marriage or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/17	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 1705	85-0 (2017)	Author: Taylor, Van Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license and the marriage of a minor.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Health & Human Services	Effective on 9/1/17	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--Child Services \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General
SB 1706	85-0 (2017)	Author: Taylor, Van	Relating to forcing or coercing a child to enter into a marriage.	Senate: Health & Human Services	Referred to Health & Human Services	\| FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Minors--Health & Safety
SJR 16	85-0 (2017)	Author: Rodríguez, José \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HB 130	84-0 (2015)	Author: Anchía, Rafael \| et. al.	Relating to authorizing a marriage between two persons of the same sex in this state and repealing the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between two persons of the same sex.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 178	84-0 (2015)	Author: Zedler, Bill	Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to waive the waiting period for a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
HB 354	84-0 (2015)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to a suit for legal separation in a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 454	84-0 (2015)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 547	84-0 (2015)	Author: White, James	Relating to the creation and dissolution of a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| County Government--General \| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 562	84-0 (2015)	Author: Leach, Jeff \| et. al.	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 899	84-0 (2015)	Author: Fallon, Pat	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in certain family law proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	No action taken in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1195	84-0 (2015)	Author: Bohac, Dwayne	Relating to a disclosure by an attorney before accepting representation of a client in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Lawyers \| STATE BAR OF TEXAS
HB 1460	84-0 (2015)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al.	Relating to a temporary restraining order for preservation of property and protection of the parties in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Laid on the table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 1699	84-0 (2015)	Author: Capriglione, Giovanni	Relating to the commission of family violence as grounds for an annulment of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Family Violence \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1704	84-0 (2015)	Author: Deshotel, Joe	Relating to disclosure of pregnancy or the existence of a gestational agreement in a suit for the dissolution of a marriage and standing of an intended parent under a gestational agreement to file a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH \| SURROGATE MOTHERS
HB 1827	84-0 (2015)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the use of digitized signatures in certain family law proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar	\| DIGITAL SIGNATURES \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2275	84-0 (2015)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott	Relating to the authority of certain university systems to provide benefits to certain qualified individuals.	House: Higher Education	Referred to Higher Education	\| Education--Higher--General \| EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & LEAVE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Health & Accident
HB 2278	84-0 (2015)	Author: Muñoz, Jr., Sergio Sponsor: Uresti, Carlos	Relating to authorizing certain current and retired associate judges to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/15	\| Courts--County & Statutory \| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 2411	84-0 (2015)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the appointment of an associate judge in a family law proceeding involving a name change.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2486	84-0 (2015)	Author: Keffer, Jim \| et. al. Sponsor: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the right of a person to enter the person's residence or former residence accompanied by a peace officer to recover certain personal property; creating an offense.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/15	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PEACE OFFICERS \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 2555	84-0 (2015)	Author: White, Molly	Relating to the definition of marriage in this state and the prohibition against the creation or recognition of a marriage between persons of the same sex or a civil union.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 2692	84-0 (2015)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott	Relating to the definition of a dependent for health benefit plans offered by certain university systems.	House: Higher Education	Referred to Higher Education	\| Education--Higher--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Health & Accident \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 3567	84-0 (2015)	Author: Sanford, Scott \| et. al.	Relating to the rights of certain religious organizations and individuals relating to a marriage that violates a sincerely held religious belief.	House: State Affairs	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion
HB 3602	84-0 (2015)	Author: Bell, Cecil \| et. al.	Relating to the religious freedom of a conscientious objector to act or fail to act with respect to certain issues of marriage, sexual relations, and gender.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
HB 3734	84-0 (2015)	Author: Sheets, Kenneth	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license and the marriage of a minor.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--Child Services \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 3890	84-0 (2015)	Author: Stephenson, Phil	Relating to prohibiting benefits for same-sex spouses under a public retirement system.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 3943	84-0 (2015)	Author: Rinaldi, Matt	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 4093	84-0 (2015)	Author: Krause, Matt	Relating to repealing insupportability as a ground for divorce.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 4105	84-0 (2015)	Author: Bell, Cecil \| et. al.	Relating to the issuance, enforcement, and recognition of marriage licenses and declarations of informal marriage.	House: State Affairs	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PRESERVATION OF SOVEREIGNTY & MARRIAGE ACT \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 34	84-0 (2015)	Author: Coleman, Garnet	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 47	84-0 (2015)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a court to partition the community property and to characterize future earnings of spouses as separate property on legal separation of the spouses.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SEPARATION
SB 98	84-0 (2015)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan \| et. al.	Relating to authorizing a marriage between two persons of the same sex in this state and repealing the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between two persons of the same sex.	Senate: State Affairs	Co-author authorized	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 457	84-0 (2015)	Author: Burton, Konni \| et. al.	Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace to waive the waiting period for a marriage ceremony.	Senate: State Affairs	Co-author authorized	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
SB 531	84-0 (2015)	Author: Campbell, Donna \| et. al. Sponsor: Leach, Jeff \| et. al.	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: State Affairs	Considered in Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 739	84-0 (2015)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the right of a person to enter the person's residence or former residence accompanied by a peace officer to recover certain personal property; creating an offense.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PEACE OFFICERS \| Property Interests--Personal Property
SB 812	84-0 (2015)	Author: Rodríguez, José Sponsor: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the appointment of an associate judge in a family law proceeding involving a name change.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/15	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 813	84-0 (2015)	Author: Rodríguez, José Sponsor: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the use of digitized signatures in certain family law proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/15	\| DIGITAL SIGNATURES \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 815	84-0 (2015)	Author: Rodríguez, José Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to a temporary restraining order for preservation of property and protection of the parties in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/15	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
SB 1033	84-0 (2015)	Author: Watson, Kirk	Relating to relating to the definition of a dependent for health benefit plans offered by certain university systems.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Education--Higher--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Health & Accident \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 1064	84-0 (2015)	Author: Garcia, Sylvia	Relating to the use by the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state of a same-sex marriage license or similar document for the limited purpose of verifying a person's identity.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| IDENTIFICATION CARDS \| Political Subdivisions \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
SB 1090	84-0 (2015)	Author: Hall, Bob	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 1120	84-0 (2015)	Author: Taylor, Van	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license and the marriage of a minor.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--Child Services \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 1372	84-0 (2015)	Author: Lucio, Jr., Eddie	Relating to authorizing certain current and former members of the state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Legislature \| State Officers
SB 1799	84-0 (2015)	Author: Taylor, Larry	Relating to the religious freedom of a conscientious objector to act or fail to act with respect to certain issues of marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
SB 2065	84-0 (2015)	Author: Estes, Craig \| et. al. Sponsor: Sanford, Scott \| et. al.	Relating to the rights of certain religious organizations and individuals relating to a marriage that violates a sincerely held religious belief.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective immediately	\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Religion
SJR 13	84-0 (2015)	Author: Rodríguez, José \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SR 1028	84-0 (2015)	Author: Hancock, Kelly	Relating to the preservation of the present definition of marriage.		Reported enrolled	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Miscellaneous
HB 190	83-0 (2013)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to a suit for legal separation in a marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 387	83-0 (2013)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to spousal maintenance agreements.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 388	83-0 (2013)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to the enforcement of a property distribution agreement incident to divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 389	83-0 (2013)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Rodríguez, José	Relating to the enforcement of spousal maintenance agreements and property distribution agreements incident to divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/13	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 460	83-0 (2013)	Author: Cortez, Philip	Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct a marriage ceremony and collect a related fee.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 733	83-0 (2013)	Author: Raymond, Richard Peña	Relating to certain personal information included in a decree of dissolution of a marriage, a qualified domestic relations order, an order or writ of withholding, or an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| Protection of Personal Information \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 750	83-0 (2013)	Author: Hilderbran, Harvey \| et. al.	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 849	83-0 (2013)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the effect of certain interlocutory appeals on the commencement of a trial in a suit brought under the Family Code.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Courts--Civil Procedure \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 850	83-0 (2013)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to a waiver of service of process by a party to a suit for the dissolution of a marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 869	83-0 (2013)	Author: Ashby, Trent \| et. al. Sponsor: Paxton, Ken	Relating to the issuance of a marriage license for an absent applicant, the participation of a proxy in certain marriage ceremonies, and the maintenance and submission of records relating to a marriage license issued for an absent applicant.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/13	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Military & Veterans
HB 984	83-0 (2013)	Author: Elkins, Gary Sponsor: Huffman, Joan	Relating to certain information required to be provided to an applicant for a marriage license.	House: Technology Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/13	\| Electronic Information Systems \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--AIDS \| INTERNET \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
HB 1300	83-0 (2013)	Author: Burnam, Lon \| et. al.	Relating to authorizing a marriage between two persons of the same sex in this state and repealing the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between two persons of the same sex.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 1365	83-0 (2013)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie	Relating to the time in which to request a de novo hearing following a ruling by an associate judge in certain family or juvenile law cases.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Minors--Juvenile Justice
HB 1366	83-0 (2013)	Author: Lucio III, Eddie Sponsor: Rodríguez, José	Relating to certain procedures in family or juvenile law proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/13	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Minors--Juvenile Justice \| Notaries
HB 1575	83-0 (2013)	Author: Zedler, Bill	Relating to the effect on a credit report of certain transactions by a person's spouse pending a divorce decree.	House: Investments & Financial Services	Placed on General State Calendar	\| CREDIT REPORTS \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1673	83-0 (2013)	Author: Perry, Charles \| et. al.	Relating to the creation and dissolution of a covenant marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 2675	83-0 (2013)	Author: Laubenberg, Jodie	Relating to the eligibility of the former spouse of a person who is elderly or disabled to receive a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes imposed on the spouse's residence homestead by certain taxing units.	House: Ways & Means	Referred to Ways & Means	\| Aging \| Disabilities, Persons with \| DIVORCE \| Education--Junior College Districts \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Taxation--City \| Taxation--County \| Taxation--Property-Assessment & Collection \| Taxation--Property-Exemptions \| Taxation--School District
HB 2878	83-0 (2013)	Author: Raymond, Richard Peña	Relating to certain procedures in certain civil actions.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Courts--Personnel \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General \| SUPREME COURT
HB 2985	83-0 (2013)	Author: Sanford, Scott \| et. al.	Relating to marriage education courses for certain couples filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
HB 3024	83-0 (2013)	Author: Zedler, Bill	Relating to premarital education requirements for certain applicants for a marriage license; creating an offense.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION
HB 3303	83-0 (2013)	Author: Krause, Matt \| et. al.	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3333	83-0 (2013)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the appointment of a parent as a child's managing conservator.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| CONSERVATORSHIP \| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3470	83-0 (2013)	Author: Bohac, Dwayne	Relating to a disclosure by an attorney before accepting representation of a client in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Lawyers \| MEDIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, & ARBITRATION
HB 3490	83-0 (2013)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the liability of a spouse in certain divorce suits for costs, attorney's fees, and expenses.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3612	83-0 (2013)	Author: Elkins, Gary	Relating to marriage education courses for certain couples filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| INTERNET
HB 3786	83-0 (2013)	Author: Perry, Charles	Relating to the liability of a spouse in certain divorce suits for costs, attorney's fees, and expenses.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HJR 53	83-0 (2013)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a court to partition the community property and to characterize future earnings of spouses as separate property on legal separation of the spouses.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SEPARATION
HJR 77	83-0 (2013)	Author: Anchía, Rafael \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 78	83-0 (2013)	Author: Coleman, Garnet \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 117	83-0 (2013)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the right of a person to enter the person's residence or former residence accompanied by a peace officer to recover certain personal property; providing penalties.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Committee report printed and distributed	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PEACE OFFICERS \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
SB 285	83-0 (2013)	Author: Carona, John \| et. al.	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in a proceeding involving marriage, a suit for dissolution of a marriage, or a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in this state.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Co-author authorized	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 370	83-0 (2013)	Author: Lucio, Jr., Eddie	Relating to authorizing certain current and former members of the state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Not again placed on intent calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Legislature \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| State Officers
SB 480	83-0 (2013)	Author: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the formation of a civil union between persons of the same sex; providing penalties.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
SB 1218	83-0 (2013)	Author: Campbell, Donna \| et. al.	Relating to the proof of an applicant's identity and age required for the issuance of a marriage license.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| IDENTIFICATION CARDS \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PASSPORTS
SB 1260	83-0 (2013)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to the enforcement of spousal maintenance agreements and property distribution agreements incident to divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 1261	83-0 (2013)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Relating to certain procedures in certain civil actions.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Courts--Personnel \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General \| SUPREME COURT
SB 1317	83-0 (2013)	Author: Whitmire, John Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to persons authorized to perform a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/13	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 1600	83-0 (2013)	Author: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct a marriage ceremony and collect a related fee.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 1639	83-0 (2013)	Author: Carona, John \| et. al.	Relating to the application of foreign laws and foreign forum selection in certain family law proceedings.	Senate: Business & Commerce	Co-author authorized	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| FORUM NON CONVENIENS \| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SJR 29	83-0 (2013)	Author: Rodríguez, José	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 20	83-2 (2013)	Author: Burnam, Lon \| et. al.	Relating to authorizing a marriage between two persons of the same sex in this state and repealing the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between two persons of the same sex.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 11	83-2 (2013)	Author: Coleman, Garnet	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 147	82-0 (2011)	Author: Raymond, Richard Pena	Relating to certain personal information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records
HB 253	82-0 (2011)	Author: Hilderbran, Harvey Sponsor: Nelson, Jane	Relating to the protection of children by ensuring reports of abuse or neglect, protecting children from abuse and neglect, ensuring that births are reported, and prosecuting the offense of bigamy; providing criminal penalties.	House: Human Services Senate: Health & Human Services	Effective on 9/1/11	\| BIGAMY \| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Education--Primary & Secondary--Admission & Attendance \| FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General
HB 482	82-0 (2011)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to agreed orders in family law matters.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Withdrawn from schedule	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 541	82-0 (2011)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to certain personal information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records
HB 544	82-0 (2011)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to a request for attorney's fees in a family law matter.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 547	82-0 (2011)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. \| et. al.	Relating to a suit for legal separation in a marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| SEPARATION
HB 898	82-0 (2011)	Author: Howard, Charlie \| et. al.	Relating to certain requirements relating to the issuance of a marriage license or the recording of a declaration of informal marriage and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 901	82-0 (2011)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al. Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to spousal maintenance.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/11	\| ALIMONY \| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 908	82-0 (2011)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the division of community property on dissolution of marriage.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/11	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 2422	82-0 (2011)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the procedure for providing a copy of the final decree of dissolution of a marriage to a party who waived service of process.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2637	82-0 (2011)	Author: Chisum, Warren	Relating to premarital education courses.	House: State Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| Human Services--General \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION \| State Finances--Management & Control
HB 2638	82-0 (2011)	Author: Chisum, Warren	Relating to intervention by the attorney general in a suit involving recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY GENERAL \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 2855	82-0 (2011)	Author: Howard, Charlie	Relating to marriage education courses for certain couples filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
HB 3098	82-0 (2011)	Author: Kolkhorst, Lois	Relating to the proof of an applicant's identity and age required for the issuance of a marriage license.	House: Public Health	Referred to Public Health	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| IDENTIFICATION CARDS \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 3707	82-0 (2011)	Author: Christian, Wayne	Relating to the waiting period for certain spouses filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HJR 54	82-0 (2011)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a court to partition the community property and to characterize future earnings of spouses as separate property on legal separation of the spouses.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SEPARATION
HJR 102	82-0 (2011)	Author: Coleman, Garnet	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 83	82-0 (2011)	Author: Nelson, Jane	Relating to the statute of limitations on prosecution of the offense of bigamy.	Senate: Criminal Justice	Referred to Criminal Justice	\| BIGAMY \| Crimes--Against Morals \| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 625	82-0 (2011)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to authorizing the county clerk in certain counties to conduct a marriage ceremony and collect a related fee.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
SB 723	82-0 (2011)	Author: Williams, Tommy	Relating to the proof of an applicant's identity and age required for the issuance of a marriage license.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Not again placed on intent calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 817	82-0 (2011)	Author: Harris, Chris	Relating to the division of community property on dissolution of marriage.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 1159	82-0 (2011)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff Sponsor: Jackson, Jim	Relating to an exception to the residency requirements for filing a suit for dissolution of a marriage in this state for certain spouses of military personnel.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans \| RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS
SB 1349	82-0 (2011)	Author: Van de Putte, Leticia	Relating to a requirement that a person hold a license issued by the appropriate state agency to be employed as a marriage and family therapist by a school district.	House: Public Education Senate: Education	Left pending in committee	\| Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
SB 1867	82-0 (2011)	Author: Lucio, Jr., Eddie	Relating to premarital education courses.	Senate: Health & Human Services	Referred to Health & Human Services	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| Human Services--General \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION \| State Finances--Management & Control
HB 72	81-0 (2009)	Author: Guillen, Ryan \| et. al. Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in certain suits for divorce.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 299	81-0 (2009)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to mediation procedures in certain family law suits.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Courts--General \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MEDIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, & ARBITRATION
HB 313	81-0 (2009)	Author: Raymond, Richard \| et. al.	Relating to certain personal information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| Protection of Personal Information \| SUPREME COURT
HB 363	81-0 (2009)	Author: Brown, Betty	Relating to certain requirements relating to the issuance of a marriage license or the recording of a declaration of informal marriage and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	No action taken in committee	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 423	81-0 (2009)	Author: Guillen, Ryan \| et. al.	Relating to authorizing a judge of a municipal court to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Courts--Judges \| Courts--Municipal \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 480	81-0 (2009)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al.	Relating to marriage education courses for certain couples filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
HB 549	81-0 (2009)	Author: Raymond, Richard Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain sex offenses.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence Senate: Criminal Justice	Effective on 9/1/09	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--Crimes Against \| SEXUAL ASSAULT
HB 914	81-0 (2009)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to certain personal information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| Protection of Personal Information
HB 934	81-0 (2009)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to agreed orders in family law matters.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Courts--General \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1212	81-0 (2009)	Author: Howard, Charlie	Relating to certain requirements relating to the issuance of a marriage license or the recording of a declaration of informal marriage and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 2066	81-0 (2009)	Author: Gallego, Pete \| et. al. Sponsor: Nelson, Jane	Relating to enhancing penalties for assaulting a family member by strangulation or suffocation.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence Senate: Criminal Justice	Effective on 9/1/09	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Criminal Procedure--General \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2472	81-0 (2009)	Author: Kolkhorst, Lois	Relating to persons authorized to perform a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 2565	81-0 (2009)	Author: Frost, Stephen	Relating to the rights and liabilities of the parties in a suit for dissolution of a marriage and certain post-dissolution proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2566	81-0 (2009)	Author: Frost, Stephen	Relating to the rights of spouses and claims for reimbursement in relation to separate and community property.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 2567	81-0 (2009)	Author: Frost, Stephen	Relating to attorney's fees in certain postjudgment proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2568	81-0 (2009)	Author: Frost, Stephen	Relating to the marital property interest in certain employee benefits.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 2724	81-0 (2009)	Author: Woolley, Beverly Sponsor: Patrick, Dan	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Not again placed on intent calendar	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 2844	81-0 (2009)	Author: Riddle, Debbie	Relating to the characterization of certain property on the death of a spouse.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	No action taken in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates \| Property Interests--General
HB 3666	81-0 (2009)	Author: Kolkhorst, Lois Sponsor: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to the application for and issuance of a marriage license.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/09	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 3752	81-0 (2009)	Author: Howard, Donna	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HJR 131	81-0 (2009)	Author: Coleman, Garnet	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 24	81-0 (2009)	Author: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in certain suits for divorce.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Removed from local & uncontested calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 478	81-0 (2009)	Author: Carona, John	Relating to personal information contained in certain decrees and orders in family law proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| Protection of Personal Information
SB 787	81-0 (2009)	Author: Nelson, Jane Sponsor: Pierson, Paula \| et. al.	Relating to the statute of limitations on prosecution of the offense of bigamy.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence Senate: Criminal Justice	Placed on General State Calendar	\| BIGAMY \| Crimes--Against Morals \| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEXUAL ASSAULT \| STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS
SB 866	81-0 (2009)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Frost, Stephen	Relating to the rights and liabilities of the parties in a suit for dissolution of a marriage and certain post-dissolution proceedings.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/09	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 935	81-0 (2009)	Author: Seliger, Kel Sponsor: Guillen, Ryan	Relating to authorizing a judge of a municipal court to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/09	\| Courts--Judges \| Courts--Municipal \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 1324	81-0 (2009)	Author: Nelson, Jane \| et. al.	Relating to enhancing penalties for assaulting a family member by strangulation or suffocation.	Senate: Criminal Justice	Committee report printed and distributed	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Criminal Procedure--General \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 2324	81-0 (2009)	Author: Duncan, Robert Sponsor: Lewis, Tryon	Relating to the classification of certain types of marital property in regards to claims for payment of a criminal restitution judgment.	House: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/09	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 2352	81-0 (2009)	Author: Estes, Craig	Relating to marriage education courses for certain couples filing for divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
HB 162	80-0 (2007)	Author: Raymond, Richard	Relating to access to certain information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or in an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| Protection of Personal Information \| SUPREME COURT
HB 180	80-0 (2007)	Author: Zedler, Bill \| et. al.	Relating to the creation and dissolution of a covenant marriage.	House: State Affairs	Placed on General State Calendar	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 319	80-0 (2007)	Author: West, George Sponsor: Seliger, Kel	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Committee report printed and distributed	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 443	80-0 (2007)	Author: Phillips, Larry	Relating to the consent to and annulment of certain marriages.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PARENTAL CONSENT \| PARENTAL RIGHTS
HB 444	80-0 (2007)	Author: Phillips, Larry	Relating to attorney's fees in certain postjudgment proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 445	80-0 (2007)	Author: Phillips, Larry	Relating to a claim for reimbursement in a suit to dissolve a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Laid on the table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 578	80-0 (2007)	Author: Brown, Betty \| et. al.	Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 691	80-0 (2007)	Author: Brown, Betty	Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 726	80-0 (2007)	Author: Hopson, Chuck	Relating to prohibiting informal marriage and repealing procedures for recognition of those marriages.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 764	80-0 (2007)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: West, Royce	Relating to the collection of a family protection fee.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 1175	80-0 (2007)	Author: Macias, Nathan \| et. al.	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 1377	80-0 (2007)	Author: Howard, Charlie \| et. al.	Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 1646	80-0 (2007)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: Hinojosa, Juan	Relating to the marital property interest in certain employee benefits.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on intent calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 1704	80-0 (2007)	Author: Zedler, Bill	Relating to the waiting period following the issuance of a marriage license.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1705	80-0 (2007)	Author: Zedler, Bill	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in a suit for divorce.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1710	80-0 (2007)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott Sponsor: Watson, Kirk	Relating to the administration of community property.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/07	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 1821	80-0 (2007)	Author: Hamilton, Mike	Relating to the creation and dissolution of a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1870	80-0 (2007)	Author: White Delisi, Dianne	Relating to authorizing certain state elected officials to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Legislature
HB 1998	80-0 (2007)	Author: Gonzalez Toureilles, Yvonne	Relating to the requirements for a gestational agreement.	House: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PATERNITY
HB 2606	80-0 (2007)	Author: Hughes, Bryan	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2683	80-0 (2007)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al. Sponsor: Estes, Craig	Relating to funding for programs that support the development of healthy marriages or the strengthening of families.	House: State Affairs Senate: Health & Human Services	Effective on 9/1/07	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION \| Human Services--Direct Assistance \| Human Services--General
HB 2684	80-0 (2007)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al.	Relating to marriage education courses for couples considering divorce and the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: State Affairs	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
HB 2685	80-0 (2007)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al. Sponsor: Estes, Craig	Relating to certain requirements for issuance of a marriage license, including an optional premarital education course.	House: State Affairs Senate: Health & Human Services	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION
HB 3086	80-0 (2007)	Author: Phillips, Larry	Relating to the statute of limitations applicable to certain actions on a claim under a marital property agreement.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS
HB 3187	80-0 (2007)	Author: Callegari, Bill	Relating to restrictions on the geographic area in which a conservator must maintain a child's primary residence.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 3311	80-0 (2007)	Author: Martinez, Armando	Relating to fees imposed by certain counties for documents provided by the county clerk.	House: County Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| BIRTH & DEATH CERTIFICATES \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| Health--General
HB 3525	80-0 (2007)	Author: Homer, Mark	Relating to the divorce of parents with children under 18 years of age.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3632	80-0 (2007)	Author: Hartnett, Will \| et. al.	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in certain suits for divorce.	House: State Affairs	Laid on the table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3680	80-0 (2007)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the marital property interest in certain employee benefits.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 3938	80-0 (2007)	Author: Villarreal, Mike	Relating to the performance of a marriage by a county clerk, statutory county clerk or district clerk.	House: County Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HJR 73	80-0 (2007)	Author: Coleman, Garnet	Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 47	80-0 (2007)	Author: Nelson, Jane \| et. al. Sponsor: Strama, Mark	Relating to certain requirements relating to the issuance of a marriage license or the recording of a declaration of informal marriage and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| INTERNET \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
SB 430	80-0 (2007)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Phillips, Larry	Relating to a claim for reimbursement in a suit to dissolve a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/07	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 432	80-0 (2007)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Phillips, Larry	Relating to the consent to and annulment of certain marriages.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/07	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PARENTAL CONSENT \| PARENTAL RIGHTS
SB 433	80-0 (2007)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Phillips, Larry	Relating to attorney's fees in certain postjudgment proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 449	80-0 (2007)	Author: Uresti, Carlos	Relating to the requirement in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship that the parties attend parenting classes.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Not again placed on intent calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 583	80-0 (2007)	Author: Patrick, Dan	Relating to the waiting period for a divorce on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 957	80-0 (2007)	Author: West, Royce	Relating to the collection of a family protection fee.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
SB 990	80-0 (2007)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the marital property interest in certain employee benefits and the statute of limitations applicable to certain actions asserting claims under marital property agreements.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
SB 1302	80-0 (2007)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to the estates of decedents.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MENTAL INCOMPETENCY \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 1623	80-0 (2007)	Author: Watson, Kirk	Relating to the administration of community property.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Removed from local & uncontested calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 1783	80-0 (2007)	Author: Janek, Kyle \| et. al. Sponsor: Hartnett, Will	Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in certain suits for divorce.	House: State Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Returned to committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 201	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby \| et. al. Sponsor: Van de Putte, Leticia	Relating to the eligibility of a spouse for spousal maintenance in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/05	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 202	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to certain marital property agreements.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/05	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 203	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to consideration of taxes in the division of property in the dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/05	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Taxation--Property-Miscellaneous
HB 206	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to the property interests of spouses in connection with certain separate and community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 248	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the amendment of certain qualified domestic relations orders.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 410	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the property interests of spouses in connection with certain separate and community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/05	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 418	79-0 (2005)	Author: Turner, Sylvester Sponsor: Whitmire, John	Relating to an exception to the 72-hour waiting period for a marriage ceremony for certain individuals.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Effective immediately	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 723	79-0 (2005)	Author: Van Arsdale, Corbin Sponsor: Lindsay, Jon	Relating to certain reports filed with the bureau of vital statistics.	House: Human Services Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 858	79-0 (2005)	Author: Kolkhorst, Lois \| et. al. Sponsor: Armbrister, Kenneth	Relating to the issuance of a marriage license to applicants who are unable to personally appear before the county clerk.	House: State Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/05	\| Aliens \| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 895	79-0 (2005)	Author: Goolsby, Tony	Relating to imposing a fee on a request for a waiver of the waiting period following the issuance of a marriage license.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Courts--County & Statutory \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 1120	79-0 (2005)	Author: Nixon, Joe	Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Criminal Justice	Referred to Criminal Justice	\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1128	79-0 (2005)	Author: Uresti, Carlos	Relating to the requirement that the parties in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship attend parenting classes.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1175	79-0 (2005)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the modification or elimination of spousal maintenance by the parties to a premarital agreement.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| ALIMONY \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1176	79-0 (2005)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the designation of a former spouse as a survivor or P.O.D. payee of a multiple-party account before a decree of divorce or annulment is rendered.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 1177	79-0 (2005)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to an appeal of a protective order.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 1204	79-0 (2005)	Author: Raymond, Richard	Relating to access to certain information contained in a decree of dissolution of a marriage or in an order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Open Records \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY \| SUPREME COURT
HB 1228	79-0 (2005)	Author: Delisi, Dianne	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Legislature \| State Officers
HB 1413	79-0 (2005)	Author: Truitt, Vicki \| et. al. Sponsor: Whitmire, John	Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.	House: Public Health Senate: Government Organization	Effective on 9/1/05	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS, TEXAS ST. BD. OF EXAMINERS OF \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| Sunset Bills
HB 1556	79-0 (2005)	Author: Alonzo, Roberto	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Courts--Judges \| Courts--Municipal \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1965	79-0 (2005)	Author: Hartnett, Will Sponsor: Van de Putte, Leticia	Relating to the grounds for a divorce and the division of property in a decree of divorce.	House: State Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2100	79-0 (2005)	Author: Delisi, Dianne Sponsor: Nelson, Jane	Relating to heirloom wedding anniversary certificates.	House: Public Health Senate: Health & Human Services	Effective on 9/1/05	\| Arts & Humanities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State \| Health--General
HB 2106	79-0 (2005)	Author: Davis, Yvonne	Relating to protections for certain customers of a financial institution.	House: Financial Institutions	Withdrawn from schedule	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Financial--General \| Open Records \| Property Interests--Mortgages & Liens
HB 2117	79-0 (2005)	Author: Casteel, Carter	Relating to the authority of the court to exclude a spouse from the marital residence pending a suit for divorce in certain circumstances.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2620	79-0 (2005)	Author: Eiland, Craig	Relating to the recognition of an informal marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 3006	79-0 (2005)	Author: Hilderbran, Harvey \| et. al.	Relating to certain requirements and limitations relating to a person's age, marital status, residency, and relations by consanguinity and affinity; providing criminal penalties.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Criminal Procedure--General \| Elections--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HJR 6	79-0 (2005)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al. Sponsor: Staples, Todd \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Filed with the Secretary of State	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HJR 19	79-0 (2005)	Author: Talton, Robert	Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 417	79-0 (2005)	Author: Whitmire, John	Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.	Senate: Government Organization	Referred to Government Organization	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS, TEXAS ST. BD. OF EXAMINERS OF \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions \| Sunset Bills
SB 1776	79-0 (2005)	Author: Lucio, Jr., Eddie	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	Senate: Administration	Referred to Administration	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Legislature \| State Employees
HB 100	79-1 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to the property interests of spouses in connection with certain separate and community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates \| Property Interests--General \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 39	79-2 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to the property interests of spouses in connection with certain separate and community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates \| Property Interests--General \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 61	79-2 (2005)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to the property interests of spouses in connection with certain community property and to suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including proceedings for the establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support; providing a civil penalty.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MANDATORY & COMMUNITY SUPERVISION \| Property Interests--General
HB 64	79-2 (2005)	Author: Alonzo, Roberto	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Courts--Judges \| Courts--Municipal \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 38	78-0 (2003)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al.	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or a civil union.	House: State Affairs	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 177	78-0 (2003)	Author: McCall, Brian \| et. al. Sponsor: West, Royce	Relating to the regulation of certain international matchmaking organizations; providing a civil penalty.	House: Business & Industry Senate: International Relations and Trade	Effective on 9/1/03	\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| CRIMINAL RECORDS \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 884	78-0 (2003)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: Lucio, Jr., Eddie	Relating to alternative dispute resolution statements required in a suit for dissolution of a marriage and a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/03	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MEDIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, & ARBITRATION
HB 885	78-0 (2003)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V. Sponsor: West, Royce	Relating to the rights of spouses in relation to separate and community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/03	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 1391	78-0 (2003)	Author: Hamric, Peggy Sponsor: Gallegos, Jr., Mario	Relating to the confidentiality of pleadings and protective order applications in certain proceedings in the Family Code.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/03	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY
HB 1413	78-0 (2003)	Author: Christian, Wayne	Relating to the waiver of the 72-hour waiting period for a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
HB 1475	78-0 (2003)	Author: Hartnett, Will	Relating to the enforcement of an agreement between spouses to convert separate property to community property.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 1795	78-0 (2003)	Author: Wohlgemuth, Arlene	Relating to the creation and dissolution of a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Withdrawn from schedule	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2268	78-0 (2003)	Author: Raymond, Richard	Relating to restricting the availability of certain information contained in a final decree of divorce or annulment.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Open Records \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY \| SUPREME COURT
HB 2481	78-0 (2003)	Author: Uresti, Carlos	Relating to excluding certain income in calculating child support and spousal maintenance.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 2482	78-0 (2003)	Author: Uresti, Carlos	Relating to the requirement that the parties in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship attend parenting classes.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2857	78-0 (2003)	Author: Farrar, Jessica	Relating to the confidentiality of certain records of and communications with a domestic relations office.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	No action taken in committee	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Open Records \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY
HB 3463	78-0 (2003)	Author: Villarreal, Mike	Relating to discrimination by the state, a political subdivision of the state, or a private person.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Relations \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE \| SEXUAL ORIENTATION
SB 7	78-0 (2003)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff \| et. al. Sponsor: Chisum, Warren	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or a civil union.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/03	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 174	78-0 (2003)	Author: Nelson, Jane Sponsor: Madden, Jerry	Relating to the confidentiality of information in an application for a marriage license.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Effective on 9/1/03	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH, TEXAS BOARD OF \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Open Records
SB 630	78-0 (2003)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff \| et. al.	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.	Senate: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 68	78-1 (2003)	Author: Delisi, Dianne	Relating to certain persons who are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| State Officers
HCR 3	78-2 (2003)	Author: Chisum, Warren	Encouraging the United States Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment banning any marriage except a union between a man and a woman.	House: State Affairs	Referred to State Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Legislative Policy \| Resolutions--Memorializing Congress
HB 75	78-4 (2003)	Author: Turner, Sylvester	Relating to an exception to the 72-hour waiting period for a marriage ceremony for certain individuals.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HCR 1	78-4 (2003)	Author: Van Arsdale, Corbin	Memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact legislation proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Resolutions--Legislative Policy \| Resolutions--Memorializing Congress
HB 245	77-0 (2001)	Author: Wohlgemuth, Arlene \| et. al.	Relating to the divorce of certain persons on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 352	77-0 (2001)	Author: Wohlgemuth, Arlene \| et. al.	Relating to the creation of a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 413	77-0 (2001)	Author: Zbranek, Zeb	Relating to qualified domestic relations orders.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Business & Commerce--General \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 465	77-0 (2001)	Author: Longoria, John	Relating to a suit for a legal separation in a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 496	77-0 (2001)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al.	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.	House: State Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
HB 594	77-0 (2001)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to findings of fact and conclusions of law by a court in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/01	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 691	77-0 (2001)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to income withholding for spousal maintenance; providing a penalty.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/01	\| ALIMONY \| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| GARNISHMENT OF WAGES \| Labor--Wages
HB 1245	77-0 (2001)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the relationship between separate and community property during a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/01	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 1453	77-0 (2001)	Author: Menendez, Jose	Relating to the service of citation by publication in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1552	77-0 (2001)	Author: Reyna, Arthur	Relating to an order of legal separation in a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 1821	77-0 (2001)	Author: Madden, Jerry	Relating to certain election practices and procedures.	House: Elections	Referred to Elections	\| Elections--General \| Elections--Registration & Suffrage \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY
HB 2964	77-0 (2001)	Author: Hamric, Peggy	Relating to the confidentiality of pleadings and protective order applications in certain proceedings in the Family Code.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS \| RIGHT OF PRIVACY
HCR 284	77-0 (2001)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house to make technical corrections in H.B. No. 1245.		Signed by the Governor	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| Resolutions--Corrective
SB 70	77-0 (2001)	Author: Haywood, Tom \| et. al. Sponsor: Wohlgemuth, Arlene	Relating to the creation of a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 252	77-0 (2001)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: King, Phil	Relating to notice of the appointment of a receiver in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/01	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 488	77-0 (2001)	Author: Harris, Chris \| et. al. Sponsor: Chisum, Warren	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage or civil union.	House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SB 668	77-0 (2001)	Author: Van de Putte, Leticia	Relating to the service of citation by publication in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 1292	77-0 (2001)	Author: Van de Putte, Leticia	Relating to a suit for legal separation in a marriage.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEPARATION
HB 14	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goolsby, Tony	Relating to a mandatory blood test to obtain a marriage license.	House: Public Health	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--AIDS \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 16	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goolsby, Tony	Relating to the recognition of an informal marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 145	76-0 (1999)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al. Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to garnishment of wages for the enforcement of court-ordered spousal maintenance.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on adoption of const. amendment	\| ALIMONY \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Labor--Wages
HB 169	76-0 (1999)	Author: Chisum, Warren	Relating to a waiting period required for the divorce of certain persons on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 312	76-0 (1999)	Author: Madden, Jerry	Relating to the meaning of a relationship involving marriage for purposes of laws governing the conduct of an election.	House: Elections	Left pending in subcommittee	\| Elections--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 350	76-0 (1999)	Author: Wohlgemuth, Arlene \| et. al.	Relating to creating a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 383	76-0 (1999)	Author: Chisum, Warren \| et. al.	Relating to the recognition of a same-sex marriage.	House: State Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HOMOSEXUALITY
HB 457	76-0 (1999)	Author: McClendon, Ruth	Relating to the disposition of beneficial interests in life insurance, retirement benefits, and other financial plans.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Life, Health & Accident \| Retirement Systems--General
HB 638	76-0 (1999)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al.	Relating to providing alimony after the dissolution of certain marriages.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| ALIMONY \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 642	76-0 (1999)	Author: Christian, Wayne \| et. al.	Relating to the review of proposed rules of health and human services agencies.	House: Human Services	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--Child Services \| Human Services--General \| State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
HB 654	76-0 (1999)	Author: Gutierrez, Roberto	Relating to collection and use of the fee for a marriage license or a declaration of informal marriage.	House: County Affairs	Left pending in committee	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 717	76-0 (1999)	Author: Chisum, Warren	Relating to mandatory premarital testing for human immunodeficiency virus infection.	House: Public Health	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--AIDS \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 734	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the conversion of separate property to community property and to equitable and ownership interests in marital estates.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 819	76-0 (1999)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott Sponsor: Moncrief, Mike	Relating to an objection to the mediation of certain proceedings on the basis of family violence.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1175	76-0 (1999)	Author: Junell, Robert	Relating to the participation of a proxy in certain marriage ceremonies.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1209	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Relating to the clarification of certain provisions and other technical corrections in the Family Code.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective in 90 days -- 8/30/99	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1268	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to findings of fact and conclusions of law by a court in a suit for dissolution of marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1271	76-0 (1999)	Author: Dutton, Jr., Harold V.	Relating to the enforcement of an order for the payment of attorney's fees in certain proceedings.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Lawyers
HB 1336	76-0 (1999)	Author: Flores, Kino	Relating to the regulation of the practice of marriage and family therapy.	House: Public Health	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
HB 1412	76-0 (1999)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott	Relating to the application for, issuance of, and contents of a protective order.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
HB 1462	76-0 (1999)	Author: Dunnam, Jim Sponsor: Shapiro, Florence	Relating to the notification of certain persons of the marriage of the person's former spouse; providing a penalty.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| SEXUAL OFFENDERS
HB 2142	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby	Relating to the appreciation in value of separate property during a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Considered in Calendars	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 2286	76-0 (1999)	Author: Reyna, Arthur	Relating to an order of legal separation in a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2304	76-0 (1999)	Author: Coleman, Garnet \| et. al. Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith	Relating to certain providers of family counseling services under the medical assistance program.	House: Public Health Senate: Human Services	Effective on 1/1/00	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--General \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
HB 2441	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby \| et. al. Sponsor: Ellis, Rodney	Relating to the requirement that parents participate in a parenting course and counseling in certain suits involving children.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| COUNSELING & THERAPY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
HB 2442	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby \| et. al. Sponsor: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to the administration and funding of a premarital education handbook and certain marital education courses.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION \| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
HB 2829	76-0 (1999)	Author: Isett, Carl	Relating to the dissolution of a marriage on the grounds of insupportability.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2830	76-0 (1999)	Author: Isett, Carl	Relating to temporary injunctions against certain third parties during a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2831	76-0 (1999)	Author: Isett, Carl	Relating to the restriction of certain suits for dissolution of a marriage in which adultery has been committed.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3130	76-0 (1999)	Author: Chisum, Warren Sponsor: Gallegos, Jr., Mario	Relating to the judges empowered to waive the waiting period for a marriage ceremony.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Courts--County & Statutory \| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3141	76-0 (1999)	Author: Naishtat, Elliott	Relating to maintenance awarded to a spouse in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	Left pending in committee	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 3306	76-0 (1999)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to persons who are authorized to sell marital aids and other devices designed to promote safe sexual practices.	House: Public Health	Referred to Public Health	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARITAL AIDS \| Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions
HB 3830	76-0 (1999)	Author: McCall, Brian	Relating to certain post-mortem procedures.	House: Public Health	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Health--General
HCR 280	76-0 (1999)	Author: Dunnam, Jim Sponsor: Shapiro, Florence	Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house to make technical corrections in H.B. No. 1462.		Signed by the Governor	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Resolutions--Corrective & Recall
HJR 16	76-0 (1999)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia \| et. al. Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize garnishment of wages for the enforcement of court-ordered spousal maintenance.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Filed with the Secretary of State	\| ALIMONY \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Labor--Wages
HJR 36	76-0 (1999)	Author: Goodman, Toby Sponsor: Harris, Chris	Proposing a constitutional amendment permitting the conversion of separate property to community property.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Filed with the Secretary of State	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 50	76-0 (1999)	Author: Nelson, Jane \| et. al. Sponsor: Naishtat, Elliott \| et. al.	Relating to the application for, issuance of, and contents of a protective order.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Criminal Justice	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PROTECTIVE ORDERS
SB 207	76-0 (1999)	Author: Moncrief, Mike \| et. al.	Relating to protecting against family violence in family law cases and in certain other cases involving alternative dispute resolution procedures.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues	\| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MEDIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, & ARBITRATION
SB 413	76-0 (1999)	Author: Madla, Frank Sponsor: Flores, Kino	Relating to the regulation of the practice of marriage and family therapy.	House: Public Health Senate: Health Services	Effective on 9/1/99	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS \| Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
SB 644	76-0 (1999)	Author: Haywood, Tom Sponsor: Wohlgemuth, Arlene	Relating to creating a covenant marriage.	House: Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Senate: State Affairs	Committee report sent to Calendars	\| COVENANT MARRIAGE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 1015	76-0 (1999)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to the requirement that parents participate in a parenting course and counseling in certain suits involving children.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| COUNSELING & THERAPY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
SB 1162	76-0 (1999)	Author: Wentworth, Jeff	Relating to the administration and funding of certain marital education courses, including courses required to obtain a marriage license.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Left pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PREMARITAL EDUCATION \| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
HB 60	70-0 (1987)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to the rules of evidence in criminal cases with respect to spousal immunity from being compelled to testify and to the confidentiality of communications made during marriage.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Posting rule suspended	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 87	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to conjugal visitation of prison inmates.	House: Corrections	Reported from s/c with substitute	\| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 127	70-0 (1987)	Author: Moreno, Paul	Relating to the division on divorce of certain property of handicapped persons.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Disabilities, Persons with \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 203	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hill, Anita Sponsor: Caperton, Kent	Relating to an action for alienation of affection.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/87	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 254	70-0 (1987)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: McFarland, Bob	Relating to the establishment of branch offices of county clerks for the purpose of issuing marriage licenses.	House: County Affairs Senate: Intergovernmental Relations	Effective in 90 days-8/31/87	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 314	70-0 (1987)	Author: Blackwood, Bill	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary	Coauthor authorized	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 317	70-0 (1987)	Author: Tallas, Jim Sponsor: Brown, J.E.	Relating to parental consent for the marriage of certain minors.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/87	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 404	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hackney, Clint	Relating to actions for the enforcement of an agreement made on consideration of nonmarital cohabitation and for the alienation of affection.	House: Business & Commerce	Referred to Business & Commerce	\| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1213	70-0 (1987)	Author: Arnold, Bill Sponsor: Johnson, Eddie	Relating to the issuance of marriage licenses and to the time marriage ceremonies may take place.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 1/1/88	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1310	70-0 (1987)	Author: Toomey, Mike	Relating to the adoption of the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act.	House: Judiciary	1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| UNIFORM PREMARITAL AGREEMENT ACT
HB 1380	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hill, Patricia	Relating to actions for the enforcement of an agreement made on consideration of nonmarital cohabitation and for alienation of affection.	House: Business & Commerce	Referred to Business & Commerce	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1414	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hackney, Clint	Relating to the division and disposition of marital property and to spousal liability.	House: Judiciary	Pending in committee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1416	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hackney, Clint	Relating to the issuance of a marriage license.	House: Judiciary	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1417	70-0 (1987)	Author: Hackney, Clint	Relating to technical corrections and clarifications in suits brought under Titles 1 and 2, Family Code.	House: Judiciary	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| Statutory Revision
HB 1457	70-0 (1987)	Author: Perez, Nicolas	Relating to the agreement of spouses regarding the right of survivorship in certain community property.	House: Judiciary	Pending in committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 1571	70-0 (1987)	Author: Morales, Dan	Relating to the enforcement of certain court orders in suits for divorce, for annulment, or to declare a marriage void and in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HJR 70	70-0 (1987)	Author: Perez, Nicolas	Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit spouses to hold community property with right of survivorship.	House: Judiciary	1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 281	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Hackney, Clint	Restricting the abusive use of palimony suits.	House: Business & Commerce Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective in 90 days - 8/31/87	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 282	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent	Relating to the enforcement of certain property settlement agreements included in a divorce or annulment decree.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Pending in committee	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 366	70-0 (1987)	Author: Brown, J.E. Sponsor: Tallas, Jim	Relating to parental consent for the marriage of certain minors.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 532	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Evans, Charles	Relating to the provision for spousal maintenance after the dissolution of certain marriages or putative marriages and providing enforcement procedures.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 559	70-0 (1987)	Author: Krier, Cynthia	Relating to the spousal exemption from prosecution for sexual assault.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported favorably w/o amendments	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEXUAL ASSAULT
SB 842	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Toomey, Mike	Relating to the adoption of the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 893	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Perez, Nicolas	Relating to the agreement of spouses regarding certain rights in certain property.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/87	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| UNIFORM PREMARITAL AGREEMENT ACT
SB 926	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Hackney, Clint	Relating to the division and disposition of marital property and to spousal liability.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 1322	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Hackney, Clint	Relating to the requirements for issuance of a marriage license.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on 9/1/87	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SJR 35	70-0 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Perez, Nicolas	Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit spouses to hold community property with right of survivorship.		Filed with the Secretary of State	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HB 153	70-2 (1987)	Author: Hackney, Clint	Relating to the division and disposition of marital property and to spousal liability.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 168	70-2 (1987)	Author: Harris, Chris Sponsor: Caperton, Kent	Relating to the division and disposition of marital property and to spousal liability.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 70	70-2 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent	Relating to the division and disposition of marital property and to spousal liability.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 74	70-2 (1987)	Author: Caperton, Kent	Relating to certain alienation of affection suits.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported favorably w/o amendments	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 53	69-0 (1985)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to the testimony of a person in a criminal case.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Coauthor authorized	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 88	69-0 (1985)	Author: Buchanan, J. W.	Relating to the acknowledgment of parental consent for the marriage of certain minors.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Jurisprudence	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 89	69-0 (1985)	Author: Buchanan, J. W.	Relating to the expiration of marriage licenses.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 117	69-0 (1985)	Author: Kubiak, L.B.	Relating to the expiration of marriage licenses.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 173	69-0 (1985)	Author: Bush, Bob	Relating to a temporary readjustment allowance that may be granted on divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 315	69-0 (1985)	Author: Criss, Lloyd	Relating to persons who are authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 399	69-0 (1985)	Author: Messer, Bill	Relating to testimony in a criminal case involving the spouse or former spouse of a witness.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	No action taken in subcommittee	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 546	69-0 (1985)	Author: Hudson, David	Relating to the testimony of a person in a criminal case involving the spouse or former spouse of the person.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	No action taken in subcommittee	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 782	69-0 (1985)	Author: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to temporary court orders in suits for dissolution of marriage and suits affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary	Reported from s/c fav. w/o amdt(s)	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1145	69-0 (1985)	Author: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to the modification of certain divorce or annulment decrees that became final during the period in which military retirement benefits were not divisible.	House: Judiciary	Placed on General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 1432	69-0 (1985)	Author: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to remarriage after divorce.	House: Judiciary	Companion considered in lieu in comm.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1726	69-0 (1985)	Author: Blackwood, Bill	Relating to the enforcement of certain property agreement settlements that become a part of a divorce or annulment decree.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2190	69-0 (1985)	Author: Perez, Nicolas	Relating to the appointment of a receiver over certain marital property.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Financial--General
HB 2357	69-0 (1985)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to conjugal visitation of prison inmates.	House: Law Enforcement	Referred to subcommittee	\| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 2415	69-0 (1985)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 61	69-0 (1985)	Author: Lyon, Ted	Relating to the testimony of one spouse against the other in a criminal prosecution.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence Senate: Criminal Justice	Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 250	69-0 (1985)	Author: Whitmire, John	Relating to application of offenses involving sexual contact to conduct between spouses.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported favorably w/o amendments	\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 342	69-0 (1985)	Author: Uribe, Hector Sponsor: Kubiak, L.B.	Relating to the issuance of and the expiration date of marriage licenses.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 491	69-0 (1985)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Perez, Nicolas	Relating to the appointment of a receiver over certain marital property.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 547	69-0 (1985)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Bush, Bob	Relating to the provision for spousal maintenance after the dissolution of certain marriages or putative marriages and providing enforcement procedures.	House: Judiciary Senate: Health & Human Resources	1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 638	69-0 (1985)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to temporary court orders in suits for dissolution of marriage and suits affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 831	69-0 (1985)	Author: Whitmire, John Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia	Relating to issuance of a marriage license and to remarriage after divorce.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 71	68-0 (1983)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to the testimony of one spouse against the other in a criminal prosecution.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Referred to subcommittee	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 75	68-0 (1983)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to the fee for the issuance of marriage licenses and declarations of informal marriage and to providing funds for the enforcement of laws prohibiting child abuse.	House: County Affairs	Referred to subcommittee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 155	68-0 (1983)	Author: Tejeda, Frank Sponsor: Vale, Bob	Relating to fees for conducting marriage ceremonies.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 190	68-0 (1983)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to conjugal visitation of prison inmates.	House: Law Enforcement	Referred to Committee on Law Enforcement	\| CORRECTIONS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF \| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 446	68-0 (1983)	Author: Danburg, Debra	Relating to the definitions of the terms "spouse" and "wife" for the purpose of defining certain sexual offenses.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Referred to subcommittee	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 509	68-0 (1983)	Author: Messer, Bill	Relating to the waiting period for remarriage after a divorce.	House: Judiciary	Laid on the table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 703	68-0 (1983)	Author: Tejeda, Frank	Relating to the testimony of one spouse against the other in a criminal prosecution.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 937	68-0 (1983)	Author: Garcia, Matt	Relating to the abolition of common-law marriage.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1169	68-0 (1983)	Author: Khoury, Rollin Sponsor: Mauzy, Oscar	Relating to suits for dissolution of marriage and affecting the parent-child relationship and to orders and decrees in these suits, including the enforcement and limitations of orders and decrees.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1172	68-0 (1983)	Author: Hall, Tip	Relating to the exemption from a medical examination of certain marriage license applicants on the order of a justice of the peace.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1284	68-0 (1983)	Author: Valles, Robert "Bob"	Relating to the exemption from a medical examination of certain marriage license applicants on the order of a justice of the peace.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1788	68-0 (1983)	Author: Bush, Bob	Relating to a temporary readjustment allowance that may be granted on divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1819	68-0 (1983)	Author: Oliver, Jesse Sponsor: Mauzy, Oscar	Relating to the duties of persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 92	68-0 (1983)	Author: Glasgow, Bob	Relating to the testimony by one spouse against the other in a criminal prosecution.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 349	68-0 (1983)	Author: Whitmire, John	Relating to the definitions of the terms "spouse" and "wife" for the purpose of defining certain sexual offenses.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 441	68-0 (1983)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar	Relating to suits for the dissolution of marriage and affecting the parent-child relationship and to orders and decrees in these suits, including the enforcement and limitations of orders and decrees.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 537	68-0 (1983)	Author: Caperton, Kent	Relating to postjudgment support.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Postponed	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 632	68-0 (1983)	Author: Santiesteban, H.	Relating to a temporary readjustment allowance that may be granted on divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from committee favorably without amendments	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 798	68-0 (1983)	Author: Caperton, Kent	Relating to the testimony by one spouse against the other in a criminal case and the admissibility of a confidential communication between spouses in a civil or criminal case.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 837	68-0 (1983)	Author: Lyon, Ted	Relating to the testimony of one spouse against the other in a criminal prosecution.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 1012	68-0 (1983)	Author: Montford, John	Relating to the testimony of the spouse of a criminal defendant.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from committee favorably with substitute	\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 1081	68-0 (1983)	Author: Caperton, Kent Sponsor: Turner, Jim	Relating to suits for custody and support of children after entry of a foreign divorce decree.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Placed on daily Major State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 27	68-2 (1984)	Author: Buchanan, J. W.	Relating to the expiration of marriage licenses.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 72	67-0 (1981)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to conjugal visitation of prison inmates.	House: Security & Sanctions	Referred to subcommittee	\| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 503	67-0 (1981)	Author: Gonzales, Arnold	Relating to the exemption from a medical examination of certain marriage license applicants on the order of a justice of the peace.	House: Judiciary	Subcommittee laid on table subject to call	\| Courts--Justice \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 651	67-0 (1981)	Author: Danburg, Debra	Relating to the nonjudicial termination of certain informal marriages.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 707	67-0 (1981)	Author: Florence, Buck Sponsor: Brooks, Chet	Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Human Resources	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 752	67-0 (1981)	Author: Denton, Betty Sponsor: Mauzy, Oscar	Relating to suits for divorce or annulment and to declare a marriage void and to the rights, privileges, and duties of spouses.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 753	67-0 (1981)	Author: Denton, Betty Sponsor: Mauzy, Oscar	Relating to the division of certain property in a suit for divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 754	67-0 (1981)	Author: Denton, Betty	Relating to the enforcement of certain court orders issued in or after a suit for the dissolution of a marriage.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Committee on Jurisprudence	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 770	67-0 (1981)	Author: Denton, Betty	Relating to suits for divorce, annulment and to declare a marriage void, to the rights, privileges, and duties of spouses, and to the enforcement and clarification of certain courts orders.	House: Judiciary	Subcommittee laid on table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 950	67-0 (1981)	Author: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to property agreements and divisions of property between spouses and to gifts from one spouse to the other; providing for the rights, privileges, duties, and powers of spouses and third parties.	House: Judiciary	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 1145	67-0 (1981)	Author: Cain, David	Relating to the intestate succession to community property.	House: Judicial Affairs	Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 1158	67-0 (1981)	Author: Messer, Bill	Relating to a requirement that a woman notify her spouse before receiving an abortion.	House: State Affairs	No action taken	\| Abortion \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| INFORMED CONSENT
HB 1300	67-0 (1981)	Author: Cofer, Lanell	Relating to summary procedures for the dissolution of certain marriages by divorce.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1470	67-0 (1981)	Author: Washington, Craig	Relating to the funding of services and shelter centers for victims of family violence and to the funding, establishment and operation of multipurpose service centers for displaced homemakers.	House: Human Services	Committee laid on table subject to call	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Family Violence \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Services--General \| Women
HB 1643	67-0 (1981)	Author: Edwards, Al	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1945	67-0 (1981)	Author: Edwards, Al	Relating to who is authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.	House: Judiciary	Comm. report printed & sent to Comm. on Local & Consent Cal.	\| Courts--Judges \| Courts--Municipal \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 65	67-0 (1981)	Author: Brooks, Chet	Relating to the amount and use of fees for the issuance of marriage licenses and declarations of informal marriage.	Senate: Human Resources	Referred to Committee on Human Resources	\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 226	67-0 (1981)	Author: Doggett, Lloyd	Relating to the interstate succession of community property.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Record vote	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 558	67-0 (1981)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Denton, Betty	Relating to suits for divorce or annulment and to declare a marriage void and to the rights, privileges, and duties of spouses.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Comm. report printed & sent to Comm. on Local & Consent Cal.	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 649	67-0 (1981)	Author: Ogg, Jack	Relating to the authorization of United States magistrates to conduct marriage ceremonies.	Senate: Jurisprudence	No action taken	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MAGISTRATES \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 755	67-0 (1981)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to property agreements and divisions of property between spouses and persons about to marry and to gifts from one spouse to the other; providing for the rights, privileges, duties, and powers of spouses and third parties in relation to interspousal agreements, divisions, and gifts.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . .	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
SB 773	67-0 (1981)	Author: Andujar, Betty	Relating to repeal of certain sections of the Family Code of Texas with respect to medical examinations of applicants for marriage licenses.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Subcommittee on Civil Matters	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 922	67-0 (1981)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Adkisson, Tommy	Relating to marital property rights with regard to certain multiple-party accounts in financial institutions.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . .	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Financial--Banks
HB 388	66-0 (1979)	Author: Hudson III, Samuel	Relating to conjugal visitation of prison inmates.	House: Security & Sanctions	Motion to reconsider lost	\| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 422	66-0 (1979)	Author: Rudd, Jim	Relating to the rights, privileges, duties and powers of spouses.	House: Judicial Affairs	Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 754	66-0 (1979)	Author: Lalor, Lance	Relating to the amount and use of fees for issuance of marriage licenses and declarations of informal marriage.	House: Intergovernmental Affairs	Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 851	66-0 (1979)	Author: Sullivant, Bill	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judicial Affairs	Considered by subcommittee in public hearing	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 994	66-0 (1979)	Author: Sharp, John Sponsor: Schwartz, A.R. "Babe"	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1357	66-0 (1979)	Author: Gonzales, Arnold	Relating to the exemption from a medical examination of certain marriage license applicants on the order of a justice of the peace.	House: Judicial Affairs	Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1588	66-0 (1979)	Author: Cofer, Lanell	Relating to summary procedures for the dissolution of certain marriages by divorce.	House: Judicial Affairs	Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1707	66-0 (1979)	Author: Gibson, Jay	Relating to court-ordered counseling of parties to a divorce.	House: Judicial Affairs	Placed on daily General State Calendar	\| COUNSELING & THERAPY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1796	66-0 (1979)	Author: Close, G.R. "Bob"	Relating to service of citation in a suit for the dissolution of marriage or in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.	House: Judicial Affairs	Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 2014	66-0 (1979)	Author: Berlanga, Hugo	Relating to the enforcement of an agreement providing for the division of certain property of a man and a woman who are not related and who live or plan to live together.	House: Judiciary	Considered by committee in public hearing	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HJR 54	66-0 (1979)	Author: Hill, Danny Sponsor: Farabee, Ray	Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing spouses to agree that income or property arising from separate property is to be separate property.	House: Constitutional Amendments Senate: Jurisprudence	Filed with the Secretary of State	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 131	66-0 (1979)	Author: Parker, Carl Sponsor: Rudd, Jim	Relating to certain rights, privileges, duties, and powers of spouses.	House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . .	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 711	66-0 (1979)	Author: Santiesteban, H.	Relating to a temporary allowance that may be granted on divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Coauthor authorized	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 938	66-0 (1979)	Author: Doggett, Lloyd	Relating to summary procedures for the dissolution of certain marriages by divorce.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from committee favorably with amendments	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 1078	66-0 (1979)	Author: Jones, Gene	Relating to repealing Section 3.02,3.02 and 3.05, Family Code; and declaring an emergency.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from committee favorably without amendments	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 1146	66-0 (1979)	Author: Andujar, Betty	Relating to repeal of certain sections of the Family Code of Texas with respect to medical examinations of applicants for marriage licenses.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Considered by subcommittee in public hearing	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 1250	66-0 (1979)	Author: Brooks, Chet	Relating to conjugal visitation of prisoner inmates.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Committee on Jurisprudence	\| Corrections--Jails & Prisons \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 857	65-0 (1977)	Author: Semos, Chris V.	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary	Assigned to Consent Calendar	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1289	65-0 (1977)	Author: Allen, Joe	Relating to the construction of wills and trusts containing provisions for a maximum marital deduction allowable by federal law.	House: Judiciary	Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Taxation--Income
HB 1444	65-0 (1977)	Author: Uher, D.R.	Relating to procedures in certain suits for divorce in which the parties do not contest the issues.	House: Judiciary	Assigned to General State Calendar	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1450	65-0 (1977)	Author: Grant, Ben Z.	Relating to the marriage relationship and suits affecting the marriage relationship.	House: Judiciary	Considered by committee in public hearing	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1854	65-0 (1977)	Author: Bock II, Bennie Sponsor: Brooks, Chet	Relating to the reporting of serologic tests for determining the existence of infectious syphillis in applicants for marrige licenses.	House: Health & Welfare Senate: Human Resources	Effective immediately	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HJR 81	65-0 (1977)	Author: Hill, Danny	Proposing amendments of the Texas Constitution to more fully set out the rights of husbands and wives with respect to their property.	House: Constitutional Amendments	Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
SB 403	65-0 (1977)	Author: Mengden, Walter	Relating to the enforcement of certain property settlement agreements made on divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Referred to Subcommittee on Civil Matters	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 452	65-0 (1977)	Author: Santiesteban, H.	Relating to a temporary allowance which may be granted on divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Motion lost	\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 609	65-0 (1977)	Author: Mauzy, Oscar Sponsor: Semos, Chris V.	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	90 Day Bill	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 73	64-0 (1975)	Author: Bock II, Bennie	Relating to the form of service of citation in a suit for divorce or annulment or to declare a marriage void.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| Courts--Civil Procedure \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 276	64-0 (1975)	Author: Nabers, Lynn Sponsor: Hance, Kent	Amending Title 1 of the Family Code; relating to application for a marriage license without a personal appearance before the clerk; relating to issuance of a marriage license; relating to age requirements for marriage; relating to parental consent for underage applicants for marriage; relating to a court order granting an underage applicant permission to marry; relating to duplicate marriage licenses; relating to voidable marriages because of age; relating to jurisdiction over nonresident respondent; relating to citation by publication in a suit for divorce or the annulment of a marriage; relating to the counseling of parties to a divorce action; relating to jury trial in a suit for divorce or annulment; relating to the earnings of an unemancipated minor.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 524	64-0 (1975)	Author: Nowlin, James Sponsor: Lombardino, Frank	Relating to the divestiture of real or personal property on divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from subcommittee with no action taken	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 861	64-0 (1975)	Author: Chavez, Melchor	Relating to the custody of and support for children on the divorce of the parents or during the marriage relationship of the parents; providing for the modification and enforcement of order of a court setting the custody of or support for a child; providing for remedies for persons entitled to the possession of children.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1693	64-0 (1975)	Author: Bailey, Kay	Relating to providing a disability allowance on divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| Disabilities, Persons with \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1713	64-0 (1975)	Author: Tanner, Jr., Perry A	Placing in the county courts jurisdiction of certain minor's application for permission to marry or waiver of the age requirement.	House: Judiciary	Considered by committee in public hearing	\| Courts--County & Statutory \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
HB 2153	64-0 (1975)	Author: Hendricks, Bob Sponsor: Santiesteban, H.	Relating to the abolition of the common law rights of action of criminal conversation.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective in 90 days	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 266	64-0 (1975)	Author: Hance, Kent	Amending Title 1 of the Family Code.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Co-author authorized	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 381	64-0 (1975)	Author: Longoria, Raul	Relating to the custody of and support for children on the divorce of the parents or during the marriage relationship of the parents; providing for the modification and enforcement of order of a court setting the custody of or support for a child; providing for remedies for persons entitled to the possession of children.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from subcommittee with no action taken	\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 675	64-0 (1975)	Author: Gammage, R.A. "Bob"	Relating to providing a disability allowance on divorce or annulment.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Motion to suspend rules lost	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 681	64-0 (1975)	Author: Longoria, Raul	Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Reported from committee favorably without amendments	\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 775	64-0 (1975)	Author: Meier, Bill	Relating to service fees by persons ordered to pay child support, alimony, or separate maintenance by certain domestic relations courts and district courts and to the manner of payment and accounding for such funds.	House: Intergovernmental Affairs Senate: Intergovernmental Relations	Referred to subcommittee	\| ALIMONY \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
SB 1053	64-0 (1975)	Author: Meier, Bill Sponsor: Coleman, Ronald	Prohibiting the marriage between a person and a son or daughter of a brother or sister of the whole of half blood or by adoption.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Effective immediately	\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 35	63-0 (1973)	Author: Kaster, James J. Sponsor: Santiesteban, H.	Relating to orders by courts of domestic relations courts exempting marriage license applicants from the medical examination requirements.	House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence	Signed by the Governor	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 102	63-0 (1973)	Author: Nowlin, James	Relating to the divestiture of real property on divorce or annulment; amending Section 3.63, Family code; and declaring an emergency.	House: Judiciary Senate: Administration	Received from House	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 103	63-0 (1973)	Author: Nabers, Lynn Sponsor: Hightower, Jack	Amending Title 1 of the Family Code as follows: amending Section 1.01, relating to the persons who may acquire a marriage license; amending Section 1.02, relating to application for a marriage license; amending Subsection (b), Section 1.03, relating to the content of the marriage license application; . . . and declaring an emergency.	House: Judiciary Senate: Administration	Signed by the Governor	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Statutory Revision
HB 320	63-0 (1973)	Author: Sage, Joseph F.	Relating to rights of divorced parties to marry again prior to a six month period following the date the divorce is decreed.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 428	63-0 (1973)	Author: Hollowell, Bill	Relating to the imposition, collection, and use of fees to be paid to the district clerk in suits for divorce, for the payment of child support, and in certain contempt proceedings for failure to pay child support; andd declaring an emergency.	House: Judiciary	Referred to subcommittee	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 640	63-0 (1973)	Author: Geiger, Richard S.	Relating to providing a readjustment allowance on divorce or annulment.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 698	63-0 (1973)	Author: Peveto, Wayne	Relating to the repeal of Section 1.22, Family Code; and declaring an emergency.	House: Judiciary	Sent to Calendar Committee	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 920	63-0 (1973)	Author: Tupper, Jr., Charles	Relating to medical examinations prerequisite to obtaining a marriage license.	House: Judiciary	Committee hearing date	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1460	63-0 (1973)	Author: Waters, Ron	Relating to the selection of a surname by a married person; relating to the selection, by parents of a legitimate child, of the child's surname.	House: Judiciary	Referred to Committee on Judiciary	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1556	63-0 (1973)	Author: Nugent, James E.	Relating to the abolition of the office of county school superintendent of Walker County; and declaring an emergency.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HCR 219	63-0 (1973)	Author: Nabers, Lynn Sponsor: Hightower, Jack	Directing the House Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H.B. 103.		Filed without Governor's signature	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Corrective \| Statutory Revision
SB 233	63-0 (1973)	Author: Hightower, Jack Sponsor: Nabers, Lynn	Amending Title 1, Family Code relating to marriages and marriage licenses.	House: Judiciary Senate: Human Resources	Laid on the table subject to call	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 614	63-0 (1973)	Author: Patman, W.N. "Bill" Sponsor: Tupper, Jr., Charles	Relating to the content of the physician's statement required to accompany an application for a marriage license; relating to the granting of authority to the State Board of Health to require a serological test for rubella under certain conditions for the same purpose.	House: Judiciary Senate: Human Resources	Filed without Governor's signature	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 708	63-0 (1973)	Author: Hightower, Jack Sponsor: Nugent, James E.	Authorizing the State Department of Public Welfare in certain cases, or the county or district attorney, to institute charges and file complaint against any person violating these articles; providing a repealing clause and a saving clause; and declaring an emergency.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence Senate: Jurisprudence	90 Day Bill	\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 770	63-0 (1973)	Author: Ogg, Jack	Amending the Family Code and relating to marriage licenses; and declaring an emergency.	Senate: Jurisprudence	Committee substitute	\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 49	62-0 (1971)	Author: Swanson, Bill T.	Relating to providing for abolition of common-law marriages after December 31, 1971.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 236	62-0 (1971)	Author: Atwell, Ben	Relating to the rights of grandparents to visit a child who has been the subject of a divorce and custody proceeding.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| GRANDPARENTS
HB 320	62-0 (1971)	Author: Golman, Joe H.	Relating to private consensual acts between married persons and their lawful spouses.			\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 575	62-0 (1971)	Author: Daniel, Jr., Price	Relating to increasing the filing fee for suits for divorce or dissolution of marriage in certain counties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 1057	62-0 (1971)	Author: Calhoun, Frank	Relating to removing the authority of a court granting a divorce to waive the six-month prohibition against remarriage.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1058	62-0 (1971)	Author: Calhoun, Frank	Relating to abolishing the six months prohibition against remarriage.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1094	62-0 (1971)	Author: Doyle, Terry	Relating to the issuance of a child support order in conjunction with a suit for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 1332	62-0 (1971)	Author: Williams, Lindon	Relating to designating as separate property certain disability benefits.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1389	62-0 (1971)	Author: Ogg, Jack	Relating to marriage licenses and their issuance.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1430	62-0 (1971)	Author: Farenthold, Frances	Relating to parental financial responsibility as regards child support payments; a penalty.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 1531	62-0 (1971)	Author: Wyatt, Jr., Joe \| et. al.	Relating to increasing the filing fee for suits for divorce or dissolution of marriage in all counties in the 24th Judicial District and the 135th Judicial District.			\| Courts--District \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
SB 38	62-0 (1971)	Author: McKool, Mike \| et. al. Sponsor: Hale, L. DeWitt	Relating to providing that an informal marriage of certain underage persons without parental consent is voidable and requiring written consent of parents to be attached to a declaration of informal marriage.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 125	62-0 (1971)	Author: Hightower, Jack	Relating to the abolition of common-law marriages after December 31, 1971; making certain conforming amendments regarding proof of informal marriages and the declaration and registration of informal marriages.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 143	62-0 (1971)	Author: Hightower, Jack Sponsor: Rosson, Renal B.	Relating to including a space for social security numbers on application forms for marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| SOCIAL SECURITY
SB 277	62-0 (1971)	Author: Kothmann, Glenn	Relating to certain informal marriages of persons under 21 years of age, providing an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
SB 805	62-0 (1971)	Author: Patman, W.N. "Bill"	Relating to increasing the filing fee for suits of divorce or dissolution of marriage in all counties in the 24th Judicial District and the 135th Judicial District.			\| Courts--District \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 53	61-0 (1969)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"	Relating to adopting Title I of the Family Code, a substantive revision of the statutes relating to husband and wife; relating to the record-keeping and information-providing function of the Bureau of Vital Statistics; providing an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Statutory Revision
HB 193	61-0 (1969)	Author: Cummings, Russell Bennett	Relating to the abolition of common-law marriages and proof of existing common-law marriages; relating to the record-keeping and information-providing function of the Bureau of Vital Statistics.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 261	61-0 (1969)	Author: Evans, C. David \| et. al.	Relating to repealing Statutes relating to miscegenation.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Relations
HB 285	61-0 (1969)	Author: Davis, Cletus A. "Cowboy"	Relating to abolishing adultery by the wife as justification for homicide.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 471	61-0 (1969)	Author: Salter, Robert F. "Bob"	Relating to the child custody award in a divorce suit, by imposing restrictions on the award of custody to persons other than a parent.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 505	61-0 (1969)	Author: Nowlin, James	Relating to providing for counsel fees and expenses to wife in suits for divorce or to annul a marriage.			\| ATTORNEY'S FEES \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1100	61-0 (1969)	Author: Ray, Jr., C. L.	Relating to prohibiting a county clerk or any deputy from directing parties who have been issued a marriage license to a particular person for the performance of the marriage; prescribing a penalty.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 1223	61-0 (1969)	Author: Ogg, Jack	Relating to the grounds for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1247	61-0 (1969)	Author: Farenthold, Frances "Sissy"	Relating to repealing Article 32, Penal Code of Texas, 1925, relating to offenses by married women.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1392	61-0 (1969)	Author: Doran, Jr., Hilary B.	Relating to establishing a limitation period for certain suits which challenge the validity of a conveyance by a married couple.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1401	61-0 (1969)	Author: Farenthold, Frances "Sissy"	Relating to parental financial responsibility as regards child-support payments; providing delay in issuance of marriage license; a penalty.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 50	61-0 (1969)	Author: Word, James Powell	Relating to a substantive revision of the statutes of the Family Code relating to husband and wife--entering the marriage relationship, etc.; providing an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Statutory Revision
SB 273	61-0 (1969)	Author: Jordan, Barbara Charline	Relating to amending the Probate Code clarifying the effect of divorce upon the surviving spouse.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 464	61-0 (1969)	Author: Word, James Powell	Relating to venue in divorce proceedings.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 807	61-0 (1969)	Author: Harrington, D. Roy	Relating to uniform reciprocal enforcement of support.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 29	61-1 (1969)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"	Relating to amending various provisions the Family Code; providing penalty for violations.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 47	61-2 (1969)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"	Relating to amending various provisions of the Family Code; penalty for violation by county clerk or deputy.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 8	60-0 (1967)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick" \| et. al.	Relating to the rights, duties, privileges, powers, and liabilities of spouses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 14	60-0 (1967)	Author: Floyd, Jr., Paul W. \| et. al.	Relating to the prohibition of common-law marriages; providing certain marriage contracts are not valid.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 40	60-0 (1967)	Author: Harding, Forrest A. \| et. al.	Relating to the filing of divorce and annulment of marriage information with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 73	60-0 (1967)	Author: Finney, Dave	Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing that no person may falsely claim to be the parent or guardian of a minor applying for a marriage license for the purpose of inducing the county clerk to issue the license and providing a penalty.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General
HB 278	60-0 (1967)	Author: Whatley, Willis James	Relating to changing the period of living apart without cohabitation as a ground for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 368	60-0 (1967)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to amending certain article of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to allegation of ownership of property in an indictment, so as to delete that portion which provides that the ownership of the separate property of a married woman may be alleged to be in her, or in her husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 425	60-0 (1967)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to venue for married women.			\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 481	60-0 (1967)	Author: Davis, Cletus A. "Cowboy" \| et. al.	Relating to abolishing adultery by the wife as justification for homicide.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 523	60-0 (1967)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Relating to amending certain articles of the Penal Code so as to permit prosecution for wife or child desertion in the county where such wife or child shall have resided for 60 days next preceding the filing of the indictment or information or in the county in which the defendant may be located.			\| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 653	60-0 (1967)	Author: Scoggins, Charles R. "Chuck"	Relating to filing affidavits with the county clerk before a marriage license may be issued.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 760	60-0 (1967)	Author: Murray, Menton J.	Relating to repealing a certain Article of the Penal Code relating to parental consent to marriage of a minor child.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 33	60-0 (1967)	Author: Word, James Powell \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to the rights, duties, privileges, powers, and liabilities of spouses; validating certain acknowledgments of married women.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 193	60-0 (1967)	Author: Wilson, Charles N. "Charlie"	Relating to adoption by a married person who is not legally an adult.			\| ADOPTION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 194	60-0 (1967)	Author: Wilson, Charles N. "Charlie"	Relating to emancipating married minor males.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
SB 206	60-0 (1967)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to repealing the Penal Code article relating to adultery as justification for homicide committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 432	60-0 (1967)	Author: Reagan, Bruce A.	Relating to amending certain statutes relating to filing affidavits with the county clerk before a marriage license may be issued.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HCR 15	60-1 (1968)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Directing the creation of a Family Law Study Committee.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Interim Studies \| Legislature \| Resolutions--Legislative Policy
HB 92	59-0 (1965)	Author: Haring, Paul Byrne \| et. al.	Relating to providing that no suit for divorce shall be heard, or divorce granted, before the expiration of 180 days after the suit is filed if there are children under 18 years of age born of the marriage sought to be dissolved or adopted by the parties to the suit.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 201	59-0 (1965)	Author: Shannon, Jr., Thomas Clifton "Tommy" \| et. al.	Relating to competency of spouses to testify against each other in certain actions; amending the Code of Criminal Procedure.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 209	59-0 (1965)	Author: Isaacks, Maud	Relating to amending certain acts relating to partition or exchange of community property between husband and wife, by deleting provisions requiring approval of the transaction by the District Court in certain circumstances.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 211	59-0 (1965)	Author: Miller, Wallace H.	Relating to prohibiting common-law marriages.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 213	59-0 (1965)	Author: Miller, Wallace H.	Relating to making privileged certain communications between husband and wife, attorney and client, clergyman and confessor, physician and patient, and newsman and his source of information.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health Care Providers \| Religion
HB 322	59-0 (1965)	Author: Guffey, Lloyd Myron	Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure in relation to allegation of ownership of property in an indictment, so as to delete that portion which provides that the ownership of the separate property of a married woman may be alleged to be in her, or in her husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 344	59-0 (1965)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide the same standards for both the husband and the wife with respect to adultery as a ground for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 345	59-0 (1965)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to exemption from jury service, granting an exemption to either the husband or the wife where both spouses are summoned to serve on the same jury panel.			\| Courts--Juries \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 367	59-0 (1965)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide that adultery is justification under certain circumstances for homicide committed by the wife upon one taken in the act of adultery with the husband.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 449	59-0 (1965)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Relating to the control, management and disposition of the separate and community property of married persons and the liability of such property for debts and claims, and to the capacity of married women to make contracts, to sue and be sued, and to enter into other business or legal relationships.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 458	59-0 (1965)	Author: Williamson, Billy H.	Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing that either parent may give consent for the marriage of a minor.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 463	59-0 (1965)	Author: Atwell, Ben	Relating to persons who are authorized to celebrate marriage rites.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 516	59-0 (1965)	Author: Brooks, Chet \| et. al.	Relating to repealing certain Article of the Penal Code relating to punishment for an offense which a married woman commits by the command or persuasion of her husband.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 610	59-0 (1965)	Author: Crews, David William	Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to the issuance of marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 614	59-0 (1965)	Author: Miller, Wallace H.	Relating to grounds for divorce; amending the Revised Civil Statutes.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 754	59-0 (1965)	Author: Woods, Henry Jackson "Jack" \| et. al.	Relating to permitting a married woman to sue alone for the recovery of her separate property or of the special community property under conditions herein specified.			\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 758	59-0 (1965)	Author: Cowden, George M. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes relating to grounds for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 816	59-0 (1965)	Author: Bass, Robert Wilton "Bob"	Relating to repealing certain Article of the Penal Code relating to adultery as justification for homicide committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 832	59-0 (1965)	Author: Pickens, Franklin Ace	Relating to repealing certain article of the Penal Code relating to adultery as justification for homicide.			\| Crimes--Capital Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 839	59-0 (1965)	Author: Whatley, Willis James	Relating to amending certain articles relating to acknowledgments of married women, so as to provide that a married woman need be examined privily and apart from her husband only when she acknowledges a conveyance of the homestead or any instrument encumbering or otherwise affecting the homestead.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
HB 996	59-0 (1965)	Author: Dickson, Temple	Relating to the partnership agreements of married women authorizing the continuance of partnership agreements entered into prior to marriage and authorizing a married woman to enter into a partnership agreement after marriage.			\| Corporations & Associations \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 1007	59-0 (1965)	Author: Woods, Henry Jackson "Jack"	Relating to amending certain Articles so as to require the separate acknowledgment of the wife only in the conveyance or encumbrance of the homestead and to clarify the language of said Articles.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
HCR 166	59-0 (1965)	Author: Miller, Wallace H.	Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. No. 211.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Administration
HCR 187	59-0 (1965)	Author: Haring, Paul Byrne	Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. No. 92.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Resolutions--Administration
SB 9	59-0 (1965)	Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"	Relating to the control, management and disposition of the separate and community property of married persons and the liability of such property for debts and claims, and to the capacity of married women to make contracts, to sue and be sued, and to enter into other business or legal relationships.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 58	59-0 (1965)	Author: Watson, Jr., Murray	Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for a right of survivorship agreement between husband and wife, to provide for the issuance of the certificate of title in the name of both.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Vehicles & Traffic--General
SB 63	59-0 (1965)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to amending the Texas Probate Code so as to provide that either the father or the mother is entitled to appointment as guardian of the estates of the minor children by the marriage if the parents live together.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child \| GUARDIANS & WARDS
SB 297	59-0 (1965)	Author: Schwartz, A.R. "Babe"	Relating to repealing certain Statutes relative to ante-nuptial agreements.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 365	59-0 (1965)	Author: Herring, Charles	Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the issuance of marriage licenses; providing for consent of either parent for the marriage of a minor to be given by said parent appearing before the County Clerk of any county in the United States of America and giving consent under oath; eliminating the requirement that application must be on file at least three days in the County Clerk's Office before issuing a marriage license to a minor.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 366	59-0 (1965)	Author: Herring, Charles	Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing for consent for the marriage of a minor child by the father or mother alone in certain cases.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 434	59-0 (1965)	Author: Spears, Jr., Franklin Scott	Relating to preserving in the court granting a divorce, jurisdiction to modify child custody; amending certain Acts.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 507	59-0 (1965)	Author: Word, James Powell	Relating to the rights of spouses as affect the separate property of the spouses, the community property of spouses, the capacity of spouses, and the powers of management, control and disposition of the property of spouses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 15	58-0 (1963)	Author: Clayton, Bill \| et. al.	Relating to abolishing common law marriages; providing for the legitimacy of all children born or conceived prior to the effective date of this Act; providing for an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 22	58-0 (1963)	Author: Rosson, Renal B. \| et. al.	Relating to increasing the period from the time a divorce petition is filed to the time it may be heard; making it a felony for any party to a divorce to marry anyone within six (6) months except the other party to the divorce; requiring that all child support payments be paid to the clerk of the court rendering the support judgment; requiring the appointment of an attorney ad litem to represent children in every divorce suit; requiring the defendant in a divorce suit involving children to be present when the cause is heard; permitting visitation at reasonable times and places by the parent not having custody of children.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 60	58-0 (1963)	Author: Fletcher, Henry A. \| et. al.	Providing that no marriage license shall be issued until it has been on file in the County Clerk's office for a period of not less than five (5) days.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 122	58-0 (1963)	Author: Adams, J. Collier	Relating to providing for the extension of the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Duties of Support Act to cases wherein the petitioner and the respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties within the State of Texas.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 188	58-0 (1963)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"	Relating to uniform reciprocal enforcement of support.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
HB 199	58-0 (1963)	Author: Glenn, Allen D. \| et. al.	Relating to providing that subpoenas issued in misdemeanor wife and child desertion cases shall be amenable outside the county in which prosecution is pending and that officers issuing and serving such process and witnesses from within and without the county in such prosecution shall be compensated as though the offense were a felony.			\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 384	58-0 (1963)	Author: Carriker, Max D.	Relating to requiring district clerks to report certain divorce information to the State Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics; providing for the payment of a fee by anyone receiving divorce information from the Bureau and the accounting for such fee by the Bureau.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 403	58-0 (1963)	Author: Cowden, George M. \| et. al.	Relating to removing the disabilities of coverture of a married woman in connection with her contracts and her management and control of the separate property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 404	58-0 (1963)	Author: Cowden, George M. \| et. al.	Relating to repealing requiring joinder of the husband and privy acknowledgment of the wife in any conveyance of the separate lands of the wife.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 497	58-0 (1963)	Author: Satterwhite, William Thomas "Bill" \| et. al.	Relating to equalizing as between spouses those grounds for divorce base on abandonment or adultery.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 504	58-0 (1963)	Author: Rosson, Renal B.	Relating to eliminating the requirement of separate and privy acknowledgment of a married woman to instruments purporting to be executed by her.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
HB 550	58-0 (1963)	Author: Esquivel, Rudolph S. "Rudy"	Relating to providing that in misdemeanor cases involving wife and child desertion, neglect, or refusing to provide support, the court shall have authority to enter orders pending final hearing and to punish for violation or refusal to obey such orders as for contempt.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 671	58-0 (1963)	Author: Fondren, Gene Norris \| et. al.	Relating to amending by eliminating from the act the provisions making the judgment in divorce cases as to child custody conform to a jury's determination of custody and further eliminating the provisions permitting demand for a jury trial in child custody cases and adding a provision for payment of child support awards into the registry of the Court, unless the Court order provides otherwise.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 707	58-0 (1963)	Author: Glenn, Allen D. \| et. al.	Relating to providing a divorced person with a right of action against a former spouse for the commission of intentional torts upon the claimant during their marriage; providing for the running of the Statute of Limitations upon the commission of such tortious act.			\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS
HB 709	58-0 (1963)	Author: Brown, Donald M. "Don"	Relating to repealing Article 4607 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Relations
SB 365	58-0 (1963)	Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"	Relating to the control, management and disposition of the separate and community property of married persons and the liability of such property for debts and claims, and to the capacity of the married woman to make contracts, to sue and be sued, and to enter into other business or legal relationships; fixing an effective date.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 31	57-0 (1961)	Author: Haring, Paul Byrne	Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that divorce decrees shall not take effect for one (1) year after the date of the decree.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 98	57-0 (1961)	Author: Jones, William M. "Bill"	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the procedure and periods of time allowed before hearing in a divorce suit and the granting of a final decree.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 127	57-0 (1961)	Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"	Relating to repealing a certain Act concerning uniform reciprocal enforcement of support.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
HB 183	57-0 (1961)	Author: Haring, Paul Byrne	Relating to concerning the recognition of a divorce obtained in another jurisdiction and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 186	57-0 (1961)	Author: Jarvis, Ben E.	Relating to abolishing common law marriages; providing for the legitimacy of all children born or conceived prior to the effective date of this Act; providing for an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 253	57-0 (1961)	Author: Korioth, Thomas Anthony "Tony"	Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the filing of a record of each marriage, each divorce and annulment of marriage in this State with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 294	57-0 (1961)	Author: Adams, J. Collier \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Duties of Support Act providing for the extension of the Act to cases wherein the petitioner and the respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties within the State of Texas; providing for transfer of proceedings in such cases from one district court where previous orders had been entered to the responding county under this Act and defining the jurisdiction in the responding county.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
HB 328	57-0 (1961)	Author: Hughes, Robert H. "Bob" \| et. al.	Relating to amending Article entitled "Enforcement of Support" of the Revised Civial Statutes to provide for the extension of the act to cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties of the State; providing for transfer of proceedings in certain cases from one district court where previous order had been entered to the responding county under this act and for jurisdiction in the responding county.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 423	57-0 (1961)	Author: Rosson, Renal B.	Relating to amending Articles 1300, 5460, 1299 and 6607, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, and repealing Articles 6605 and 6608, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, eliminating the requirement of separate and privy acknowledgement of a married woman to instruments purporting to be executed by her.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
HB 436	57-0 (1961)	Author: Lewis, Ben H.	Relating to amending a certain Article of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes providing that jury determination of child custody may not be contravened by judgment of the court upon granting a divorce.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 670	57-0 (1961)	Author: Lewis, Ben H.	Relating to specifically providing any husband and his wife with the power of creating out of their community property, joint estates, real, personal, or mixed, with rights of survivorship.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 711	57-0 (1961)	Author: Kennard, Don	Relating to amending a Revised Civil Statute relating to the support of children who require custodial care.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MENTAL INCOMPETENCY
HB 870	57-0 (1961)	Author: Cole, Criss	Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas relating to parents giving consent for the marriage of minors.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 1012	57-0 (1961)	Author: Ballman, Charles Lee	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the management, control, and disposition by a married woman of her separate property; to provide that a married woman residing out-of-state may elect to manage her separate property in Texas.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HJR 33	57-0 (1961)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to define more clearly the separate property of the husband and of the wife; to provide that the increase of separate property and the rents and revenues derived therefrom, interest on bonds and notes, and dividends on stock, shall be a part of the separate property of each spouse; to permit the partitioning of community property; providing for the Legislature to pass enabling legislation.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 34	57-0 (1961)	Author: Willis, Doyle \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Civil Statute eliminating the requirement of separate and privy acknowledgment of a married woman to instruments purporting to be executed by her.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
SB 52	57-0 (1961)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to management, control and disposition by a married woman of her separate property, both real and personal, including her right to contract and be contracted with, and to sue and be sued; fixing its effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 103	57-0 (1961)	Author: Martin, Crawford Collins \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Statute eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances and other instruments by married women; preserving the legal status of all instruments executed prior to the effective date hereof.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
SB 200	57-0 (1961)	Author: Secrest, Jarrard	Relating to amending a certain Statute and the Penal Code of Texas providing for the filing of a statistical report of each marriage, divorce, and annulment of marriage in this state with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics; providing the time this Act shall take effect.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
SB 295	57-0 (1961)	Author: Martin, Crawford Collins \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Statute to give a married woman 21 years of age and over sole management, control and disposition of her separate property, both real and personal; setting an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
SB 325	57-0 (1961)	Author: Hazlewood, Grady	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the filing by a married woman of a statement of election as to the management of her separate property in counties in which she owns real estate; providing that the husband be not required to join or consent to such statement.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
SB 361	57-0 (1961)	Author: Owen, III, Frank	Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that the rules of excluding testimony be changed so that husband and wife can more fully testify and be subject to broader rules of cross-examination when used as a witness for the other.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 84	57-1 (1961)	Author: Shipley, Donald K.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure providing that the rules of excluding testimony be changed so that husband and wife can more fully testify and be subject to broader rules of cross-examination when used as a witness for the other.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 69	57-3 (1962)	Author: Baker, Robert W.	Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that a wife shall never be the joint maker of a note or a surety on any bond or obligation of another without the joinder of her husband with her in making such contract, unless she has been declared a femme sole.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| LOANS \| Women
HB 91	56-0 (1959)	Author: Jones, William M. "Bill"	Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that when a child or children shall have been born of the marriage, or a child is in gestation, the divorce decree shall not become final until on year after the original petition is filed; excepting suits which are pending on the effective date of this Act.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 193	56-0 (1959)	Author: Hughes, Robert H. "Bob" \| et. al.	Relating to amending the statute entitled "Enforcement of Support" to include cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of different counties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 316	56-0 (1959)	Author: Johnson, Sr., Robert Ellis "Bob; Big Daddy"	Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that married women shall have the control, management and disposition of their contracts of life insurance or annuity, subject to nullification of the provisions of this Act by the husband by notice to the insurance company.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Life & Annuities \| Women
HB 329	56-0 (1959)	Author: Guffey, Lloyd Myron \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances and defining what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under sixteen years of age; fixing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 386	56-0 (1959)	Author: Cole, Criss	Relating to amending certain acts to require the pleadings in all divorce suits to disclose the name, age, sex and residence of all children under eighteen (18) years of age born of the marriage sought to be dissolved, or legally adopted by the parties to the marriage sought to be dissolved.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 413	56-0 (1959)	Author: Collins, Sam Forse	Relating to requiring divorce and annulment petitions to name the county in which the marriage license is recorded; requiring recordation of divorce and annulment decrees and taxing of costs of same in the cause.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 613	56-0 (1959)	Author: Lewis, Ben H.	Relating to providing for the extension of the Enforcement of Support Act to cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties of the state; providing for transfer of proceedings in certain cases from one district court where previous order had been entered to the responding county under this act and for jurisdiction in the responding county.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 674	56-0 (1959)	Author: Woolsey, W. N. "Bill"	Relating to authorizing judges having divorce jurisdiction to support and sponsor a board of marriage counselors, setting forth the purposes for organizing such board to wit: marriage counseling, premarital counseling and dissemination of vital domestic information to the public.			\| Courts--Judges \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
HB 909	56-0 (1959)	Author: Huffman, Reagan Russell	Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that the rules excluding testimony be changed so that husband and wife can more fully testify and be subject to broader rules of cross-examination when used as a witness for the other.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 47	56-0 (1959)	Author: Krueger, Culp	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting, or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances and to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under eighteen years or age; fixing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 161	56-0 (1959)	Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"	Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it an offense for any husband to willfully desert, neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife, who may be in necessitous circumstances, or any parent who shall willfully desert, neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of any child, under a certain age; prescribing fines, penalties and punishments.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 162	56-0 (1959)	Author: Secrest, Jarrard	Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing for the filing of a record of each marriage, each divorce and annulment of marriage in this state with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
SB 205	56-0 (1959)	Author: Bradshaw, Floyd Francis	Relating to amending certain acts by providing that married women shall have the control, management and disposition of their contracts of life insurance or annuity, subject to nullification of the provisions of this act by the husband by notice to the insurance company.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--General \| Women
SB 227	56-0 (1959)	Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"	Relating to amending certain statutes relative to providing for the extension of the Enforcement of Support Act to cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties of the state.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 262	56-0 (1959)	Author: Reagan, Bruce A.	Relating to authorizing judges having divorce jurisdiction to support and sponsor a board of marriage counselors, setting forth the purposes for organizing such board to wit: marriage counseling, premarital counseling and dissemination of vital domestic information to the public.			\| Courts--Judges \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING & COUNSELORS
SB 333	56-0 (1959)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain acts so as to require the joint conveyance of community real property by husband and wife.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 72	56-1 (1959)	Author: Jones, William M. "Bill"	Relating to the requirement of consent of parent or guardian of certain parties before said parties may marry or a marriage license be issued to them and relating further to the issuance of marriage licenses by the county clerk after a prescribed period of three (3) days from the date of the filing of the application.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 48	56-2 (1959)	Author: Hughes, Robert H. "Bob" \| et. al.	Relating to the requirement of consent of parent or guardian of certain parties before said parties may marry or a marriage license be issued to them and relating further to the issuance of marriage licenses by the county clerk after a prescribed period of three (3) days from the date of the filing of application.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 55	55-0 (1957)	Author: Patterson, Robert R.	Relating to amending certain Statutes by eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances by a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 57	55-0 (1957)	Author: Cline, Jr., William A. "Bill"	Relating to offenses for willfully deserting, neglecting, or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances or of a child or children under eighteen years of age; prescribing penalties.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 94	55-0 (1957)	Author: Winfree, Sr., Joseph Edwin	Relating to amending certain Statutes determining those authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 102	55-0 (1957)	Author: White, Richard Crawford \| et. al.	Relating to the residence of persons in military service stationed at military installations in the State of Texas for purpose of filing divorce suits; amending certain Statutes.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 134	55-0 (1957)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Statutes by eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances and other instruments by married women.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 135	55-0 (1957)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to the management, control, and disposition by a married woman of her separate property, both real and personal, including her right to contract and be contracted with and to sue and be sued.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 222	55-0 (1957)	Author: Thurmond, George Murat	Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to the willful desertion, negligence or refusal to support and maintain a wife or children, and raising the age of children thereunder to eighteen years of age.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 360	55-0 (1957)	Author: Kennedy, Harold G.	Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to remove the disabilities of minority of underage males, as well as femailes, who are or have been lawfully married.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
HB 363	55-0 (1957)	Author: Hensley, Jr., Joe Lee	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to provide that any parent shall be criminally liable under the provisions of this Act, for desertion, neglect, and refusal to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children, so long as such child or children are under the age of eighteen years.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 408	55-0 (1957)	Author: Hosey, Jean Edmond	Relating to declaring that all males under the age of twenty-one years who are now married or who have heretofore married or who shall hereafter marry shall be deemed to be of full age and shall be entitled to all of the rights and privileges and obligations thereto pertaining except as to the right to vote.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
HB 446	55-0 (1957)	Author: Dungan, William Taylor "Bill"	Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it unlawful for any parent to willfully desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under eighteen years of age.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 484	55-0 (1957)	Author: Sutton, Jr., Robert Keltner	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that married women shall have the control, management and disposition of their contracts of life insurance or annuity, subject to nullification of the provisions of this act by the husband by notice to the insurance company.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Life & Annuities \| Women
HB 592	55-0 (1957)	Author: Moore, James Steele "Jim"	Relating to providing a cumulative method of enforcing duties of support imposed by law; defining terms; prescribing the manner of filing and hearing of such cause of action, and the jurisdiction, duties, and powers of district court in enforcement of support payments.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 593	55-0 (1957)	Author: Moore, James Steele "Jim"	Relating to assessing against certain persons adjudged in contempt for failure to pay support imposed by law designated costs necessary to enforce such judgment; providing the manner of collection and payment of said costs.			\| Criminal Procedure--General \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 609	55-0 (1957)	Author: Cole, Criss	Relating to judgments affecting the custody and support of children in divorce cases.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 24	55-0 (1957)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to the management, control, and disposition by a married woman of her separate property, both real and personal, including her right to contract and be contracted with and sue and be sued; setting an effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
SB 25	55-0 (1957)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to eliminate the requirement of separate and privy acknowledgment of a married woman to instruments purporting to be executed by her and to eliminate the requirement of acknowledgment as an essential to the validity of certain instruments.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Mortgages & Liens \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
SB 148	55-0 (1957)	Author: Krueger, Culp	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances and defining what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under sixteen years of age; fixing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 242	55-0 (1957)	Author: Bradshaw, Floyd Francis	Relating to amending certain statutes to provide that married women shall have the control, management and disposition of their contracts of life insurance or annuity, subject to nullification of the provisions of this Act by the husband by notice to the insurance company.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Insurance--Life & Annuities \| Women
SB 371	55-0 (1957)	Author: Wood, Bill D.	Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to remove the disabilities of minority of underage males, as well as females, who are or have been lawfully married.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
HB 36	55-2 (1957)	Author: Saul, Charles Leroy \| et. al.	Relating to providing for suit for custody and support of child or children under 18 years of age against a parent when said parent was granted a divorce decree in a foreign jurisdiction and the granting court was silent as to custody and support of such children; providing for process, hearing and orders; providing further for punishment as for contempt for violation or failure to obey orders; providing for payment to the district clerk.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 28	54-0 (1955)	Author: Sanders, Jr., Harold Barefoot	Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide for a different standard for fixing the amount of the bond required for the surviving husband or wife to qualify as administrator of community property when the other spouse is insane than the standard required when the other spouse is dead.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation \| MENTAL INCOMPETENCY \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 61	54-0 (1955)	Author: Isaacks, Maud	Relating to amending Statutes by increasing from thirty (30) days to sixty (60) days the period of time which must expire after suit is filed before a suit for divorce may be heard or divorce granted.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 64	54-0 (1955)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide that a marriage without good faith attempt to obtain license shall be null and void, but that lack of authority of the person who performs the ceremony shall not invalidate the marriage; clerical errors in the license shall not invalidate the marriage; parties who attempt a valid ceremonial marriage but an impediment exists shall in certain instances be deemed married after the impediment is removed; providing that this amendment shall not affect marriages consummated before the Act becomes effective.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 101	54-0 (1955)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Relating to amending certain acts; prescribing contents of petitions and cross-petitions for divorce; requiring disposition and provision for children under certain ages in any divorce case or subsequent proceeding; providing for testimony by parents; authorizing appointment of next friend to investigate and report on conditions concerning children, and allowing a fee therefor.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 153	54-0 (1955)	Author: Lane, T. W. "Buckshot" \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas to make the first offense of wife or child desertion a misdemeanor and subsequent offenses felonies; prescribing penalties.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 285	54-0 (1955)	Author: Yancy, Jr., James Watson \| et. al.	Relating to duties of support and and to make uniform the law in respect thereto; stating the duty of support to spouses and to children and regulating actions for support; stating the effect of this Act on other laws.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
HB 708	54-0 (1955)	Author: Patterson, Robert R.	Relating to amending certain Statutes eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances by a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
HB 847	54-0 (1955)	Author: Cobb, Carroll	Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to give general contractual power to the married women in regards to her separate property; defining the wife's separate property protected from the debts contracted by the husband; defining property subject to the debts of the wife and repealing Statutes relating to the application to be feme sole.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HJR 32	54-0 (1955)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt	Proposing an Amendment to Section 15 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas to define more clearly the separate property of the husband and of the wife; to provide that the increase of separate property and the rents and revenues derived therefrom, interest on bonds and notes, and dividends on stock, shall be a part of the separate property of each spouse; to permit the partitioning of community property; providing for the Legislature to pass enabling legislation; and providing for an election and the issuance of a proclamation therefor.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Women
SB 19	54-0 (1955)	Author: Shireman, William H.	Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to increase from 30 days to 90 days the period of time which must expire after suit is filed before a suit for divorce may be heard or divorce granted; excepting suits which are pending on the effective date of the Act.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 21	54-0 (1955)	Author: Strauss, Sr., Gus James \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that a marriage without good faith attempt to obtain license shall be null and void, but that lack of authority of the person who performs the ceremony shall not invalidate the marriage; clerical errors in the license shall not invalidate the marriage; parties who attempt a valid ceremonial marriage but an impediment exists shall in certain instances be deemed married after the impediment is removed; providing that this amendment shall not affect marriages consummated before the Act becomes effective; providing the effective date.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 22	54-0 (1955)	Author: Strauss, Sr., Gus James	Relating to amending the Penal Code to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances, and to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under eighteen years of age; fixing a penalty; providing that a second conviction for a like offense shall be a felony; providing for severance of any part of this Act held invalid.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 25	54-0 (1955)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to providing for the assessment and collection of a fee in divorce cases filed in counties having a population of more than 350,000 inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census; providing that such monies collected shall be placed in a separate fund to be used for the purpose of helping defray the cost of maintaining the Child Support Office in the Probation Department of the county.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
SB 80	54-0 (1955)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to amending certain Statutes to make it a misdemeanor offense for a clerk to issue a marriage license to applicants under twenty-one in case of males or under eighteen in case of females without the consent of parents or guardian or County Judge and without requiring substantial evidence of age; prescribing form of consent; authorizing the clerk to require evidence; prescribing a penalty; making an exception; containing a separability clause.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 87	54-0 (1955)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy	Relating to amending certain Acts requiring petitions and cross-petitions for divorce to contain information relative to children of the parties to the marriage; making provisions relative to custody and support of children under 18 years of age in event divorce is granted; providing for further proceedings relative to custody and support and fixing venue of such suits; authorizing inquiry into surroundings and circumstances affecting custody and support; providing for testimony by parents; authorizing appointment of next friend to investigate and report on conditions concerning children, and allowing a fee therefor; authorizing enforcement of court orders by contempt proceedings after notice.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 63	53-0 (1953)	Author: Miller, Jr., William Andrew	Relating to amending statutes determining the procedure in filing suits for divorce; defendant not be compelled to answer upon oath nor shall petition be taken as confession for want of answer; providing for the decree by the court and providing for a jury.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 85	53-0 (1953)	Author: Houston, Jr., Horace Ben \| et. al.	Relating to providing that the wife shall have the sole management and control and disposition of her separate property, both real and personal; and providing for the disposition of the homestead, whether the separate property of the husband or wife, or the community property of both, by the joint conveyance of both husband and wife.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 87	53-0 (1953)	Author: Buchanan, Dexter Harold "Buck" \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Statutes by eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances by a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 151	53-0 (1953)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to providing for suit against a husband who fails to provide for support and maintenance of his wife; providing venue, hearing, and orders; providing further for punishment as for contempt for violation or failure to obey any order.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 152	53-0 (1953)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to amending certain Acts to prescribe contents and verification of petitions and cross-petitions for divorce.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 153	53-0 (1953)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for delay in hearing and granting of divorces; prohibiting decree of default, and authorizing jury trial.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 154	53-0 (1953)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide certain requirements for the issuance of marriage licenses by county clerks; providing that any attempted marriage without such a valid license shall be null and void.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 155	53-0 (1953)	Author: Banks, Jr., Clinton Stanley	Relating to amending certain Statutes by prohibiting remarriage by either party to a divorce within twelve months except to each other; declaring any such remarriage to be void; defining an offense and prescribing a penalty.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 165	53-0 (1953)	Author: Sentell, C. Frank	Relating to amending statutes so as to no longer require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Women
HB 224	53-0 (1953)	Author: Miller, Jr., William Andrew	Relating to amending certain Statutes determining those authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 399	53-0 (1953)	Author: Fisk, Jack Gordon	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances and to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under sixteen years of age; fixing penalty; providing that a second conviction for a like offense shall be a felony.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 753	53-0 (1953)	Author: Brown, Hulon Brasier	Relating to amending the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of the Duties of Support Act, providing for a State Information Agency and defining its functions and duties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
HJR 11	53-0 (1953)	Author: Hale, L. DeWitt \| et. al.	Proposing a constitutional amendment to define more clearly the separate property of the husband and of the wife; to provide that the increase of separate property and the rents and revenues derived therefrom, interest on bonds and notes, and dividends on stock, shall be a part of the separate property of each spouse; to permit the partitioning of community property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Women
SB 48	53-0 (1953)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide certain requirements for the issuance of marriage licenses by county clerks.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 51	53-0 (1953)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for delay in hearing and granting of divorces; prohibiting decree of default, and authorizing jury trial.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 56	53-0 (1953)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain Statutes to prohibit remarriage by either party to a divorce within twelve months except to each other; declaring any such remarriage to be void; defining an offense and prescribing a penalty.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 101	53-0 (1953)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Acts so as to raise the age from sixteen (16) to eighteen (18) years for which the court may require a parent to contribute to the support of a minor child upon the granting of a divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 141	53-0 (1953)	Author: Fuller, Jep S. \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to desertion of wife and child by increasing the maximum age of a child for which the offense therein defined is applicable from 16 years to 18 years.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 157	53-0 (1953)	Author: Strauss, Sr., Gus James	Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willful desertion and neglect of wife or minor child and fixing a penalty therefor; providing that a second conviction for a like offense shall be a felony.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 226	53-0 (1953)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to grounds for divorce, by changing the period of living apart without cohabitation as a ground for divorce from ten (10) years to seven (7) years.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 273	53-0 (1953)	Author: Willis, Doyle	Relating to providing for the assessment and collection of a fee or tax in divorce cases filed in counties having four (4) or more District Courts sitting as a Juvenile Board; providing that such moneys collected shall be placed in a separate fund and administered by the Juvenile Boards of such counties for the purpose of maintaining a Child Support Office.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local
HB 34	52-0 (1951)	Author: Houston, Jr., Horace Ben \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes regulating the issuance of marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 136	52-0 (1951)	Author: Buchanan, Dexter Harold "Buck" \| et. al.	Relating to amending Statutes so as no longer to require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband, and to longer require the separate acknowledgment of a married woman to the conveyance of the homestead; amending Statues relative to separate acknowledgments; prescribing the form of certificate of acknowledgment for a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
HB 170	52-0 (1951)	Author: Houston, Jr., Horace Ben \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes defining the separate property of married women and regulating the management, control and disposition of her separate property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 192	52-0 (1951)	Author: Houston, Jr., Horace Ben \| et. al.	Relating to uniform reciprocal enforcement of the duties of support imposed by law.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
HB 228	52-0 (1951)	Author: Kilgore, Joe Madison	Relating to amending certain statutes providing that in the trial for all suits for divorce where there is a child or children, under sixteen years of age, as an issue of the marriage sought to be dissolved, the Court shall enter an interlocutory decree preventing either party from marrying any other person for one year.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 288	52-0 (1951)	Author: Chambers, William R. "Bill"	Relating to uniform reciprocal enforcement of the duties of support imposed by law; stating the purpose of this act; defining certain terms; providing that remedies herein prescribed are in addition to other remedies; prescribing the extent of duties of support; providing for interstate rendition; providing an exception; prescribing duties enforceable; relating to evidence of husband and wife.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Intergovernmental Relations
SB 33	52-0 (1951)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to amending certain statutes regulating the issuance of marriage licenses; prescribing penalties.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| Minors--General \| PARENTAL CONSENT
SB 391	52-0 (1951)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to amending certain articles pertaining to the custody, care, education and support of minor children so as to give any District Court where a minor child and the legal guardian have resided for six months jurisdiction to enforce, amend, change or make such order concerning the child as it deems necessary, including the power of contempt in such cases providing for filing such suits, notice and making certain certified copies of records prima facie evidence and also giving the Court power to allow reasonable attorneys fees.			\| CHILD CUSTODY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 96	51-0 (1949)	Author: Senterfitt, Reuben E. \| et. al.	Relating to no longer require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 155	51-0 (1949)	Author: Williamson, W. Albert "Cap" \| et. al.	Relating to providing that a husband and wife may by written agreement partition or exchange between themselves any part or all of their community property so that the former community interest of each spouse shall thereafter constitute the separate property of each spouse.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 190	51-0 (1949)	Author: Jameson, William S.	Relating to repealing a previous Act, allowing for the abolition of the requirement of a separate acknowledgement by married women.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 405	51-0 (1949)	Author: Crosthwait, John L. \| et. al.	Relating to providing for the payment of money in wife and child desertion cases to the probation officer or the district clerk, as the Juvenile Board may direct, and the disbursement of such funds.			\| Courts--Personnel \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 528	51-0 (1949)	Author: Blount, Ralph E. "Peppy"	Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that persons who desire to marry shall procure a license from the County clerk directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony; providing that the County Clerk at the time the license is applied for shall examine the applicant or applicants for the license, under oath, as to age and residence, which shall be reduced to writing by the County Clerk and subscribed to by the applicant or applicants; and providing in case either party is absent when application is made an affidavit shall be made by person other than the contracting party as to age and residence of the absent party; providing for the filing of said affidavit in the County Clerk's office; providing that application for license shall be made at least three and not more than thirty days before the license shall be issues; providing for the recording of applications for license by the County Clerk in a book kept for that purpose and marked 'Notice of Intention to Marry' and providing that after the expiration of three and not more than thirty days after the signing of the notice of intention to marry the County Clerk may issue said license, providing for a certification from a reputable licensed physician showing the man to be free from all vernal diseases; providing for the repeal of all laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 531	51-0 (1949)	Author: Blount, Ralph E. "Peppy"	Relating to amending a certain Article relative to residence of plaintiffs in divorce suits; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 588	51-0 (1949)	Author: Parkhouse, George M.	Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring premarital examinations for syphilis; providing penalties for the violation thereof.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 624	51-0 (1949)	Author: Jameson, William S.	Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that in the trial for all suits for divorce where there is a child or children, under sixteen years of age, as an issue or the marriage sought to be dissolved, the court shall enter an interlocutory degree preventing either party from marrying any other person for one year, and providing that no final divorce judgment shall be entered until one year after the interlocutory decree is entered.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 633	51-0 (1949)	Author: Nokes, Jr., George O.	Relating to the recognition of a divorce obtained in another jurisdiction and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| UNIFORM DIVORCE RECOGNITION ACT
SB 105	51-0 (1949)	Author: Kelly, Keith F.	Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for legal relationship between an adopted child and its parent or parents by adoption, clearly defining the status of an adopted child for all purposes, recognizing the validity of adoptions of other States on children residing in the State of Texas as to the effect of the adoption and rights of inheritance.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Family--Parent & Child
SB 383	51-0 (1949)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy	Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to the removal of disability of married women.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
HB 7	50-0 (1947)	Author: Suiter, Mary Elizabeth \| et. al.	Relating to amending a previous Act, so as no longer to require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband; so as to no longer require the separate acknowledgment of a married woman to the conveyance of the homestead; repealing certain statute; and amending by prescribing the form of certificate of acknowledgment for a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 53	50-0 (1947)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy \| et. al.	Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to require the County Clerk to require from persons desiring to marry and making application for a license therefor an affidavit stating under oath that such applicant have never previously married or that the immediate former spouse of such applicant is dead or that the applicant has been divorced from the immediate former spouse, the grounds therefor and the date thereof; prohibiting the County Clerk from issuing a marriage license to persons granted a divorce on the grounds of cruel treatment within twelve (12) months from date of such divorce decree; excepting persons previously married to each other; requiring the County Clerk to maintain a record of such affidavits.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 58	50-0 (1947)	Author: McVey, Clinton Elmer	Relating to authorizing the gathering, keeping and use of certain data or information through the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Health, affecting the marital status of persons within this state.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 111	50-0 (1947)	Author: Bell, Marshall O.	Relating to providing that a husband and wife may by written agreement partition or exchange between themselves any part or all of their community property so that the former community interest of each spouse shall thereafter constitute the separate property of each spouse; and providing the terms under which such agreements may be made; providing that such instruments must be recorded in order to be effective against innocent purchasers for value; making this Act cumulative with existing laws on the subject.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 116	50-0 (1947)	Author: Latimer, Oswald E. "Ozzie"	Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to Grounds for Divorce so as to provide that a divorce may be decreed in favor of the husband where the wife shall have been taken in adultery or where she shall have voluntarily left his bed and board for the space of two (2) years with the intention of abandonment, and in favor of the wife where the husband shall have left her for two (2) years with intention of abandonment, or where he shall have abandoned her and lived in adultery with another woman, and where a husband and wife have lived apart without cohabitation for as long as three (3) years.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 146	50-0 (1947)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy \| et. al.	Relating to repealing certain Articles which required that acknowledgments of married women be taken privily and apart from their husbands.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
HB 163	50-0 (1947)	Author: Sellers, Sam C. \| et. al.	Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to regulating petitions in suits for divorce, to require such petitions to state whether there are children, either born or adopted, under sixteen (16) years of age or an unborn child or children expected and if so, to give full information as to such minors, making it the duty of the Courts having jurisdiction of such suits to inquire into the status of such children, if divorce be granted; empowering such Courts to make orders and decrees for their support and maintenance until they reach sixteen (16) years of age.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 494	50-0 (1947)	Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy	Relating to amending Article 5535 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, by omitting married women therefrom, except as to pending actions, and by suspending the effect thereof for one year from passage as to causes of action which may have arisen in favor of a married woman more than six months next before the passage thereof.			\| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
HB 556	50-0 (1947)	Author: Mangum, Preston P. "Pete"	Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that all payments made under order of the court in divorce cases and in wife and child desertion cases may be paid to either the probation officer or to the district clerk of such court; providing for the disbursement of said funds for the benefit of the wife and children; requiring bond of said probation officer; requiring the keeping of records; providing that said Act shall apply to certain counties.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HJR 13	50-0 (1947)	Author: Bell, Marshall O.	Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the husband and wife from time to time may in writing partition between themselves in severalty or into undivided interests all or any part of their community property, whereupon without prejudice to the right of existing creditors the portion or interest set aside to each spouse shall be and constitute a part of the separate property of such spouse.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 110	50-0 (1947)	Author: Vick, Kyle A.	Relating to amending a previous Act, regulating petitions in suits for divorce; requiring such petitions to state whether there are children under sixteen years of age or an unborn child or children expected; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of all other laws on the same subject.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 275	50-0 (1947)	Author: York, Joseph Alton	Relating to authorizing divorce proceedings by the guardian or next friend of an insane person and the granting of divorces to insane persons.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| GUARDIANS & WARDS \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
SB 390	50-0 (1947)	Author: Ramsey, Ben	Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing that funds on deposit in any bank or banking institution shall be presumed to be the separate property of the party in whose name they stand unless said bank or banking institution is notified to the contrary.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Financial--Banks
HB 93	49-0 (1945)	Author: Cato, Arthur	Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that each of the parties entering into a contract of marriage in Texas be thoroughly examined by a physician legally licensed to practice medicine in Texas, who at the time of said examination caused to be made of specimens taken from such persons standard serological tests and other such laboratory procedures as are essential to the determination of freedom from syphilis and all other venereal diseases.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 108	49-0 (1945)	Author: Bell, Marshall O. \| et. al.	Relating to providing that a husband and wife may be written agreement partition or exchange between themselves any part or all of their community property so that the former community interest of each spouse shall thereafter constitute the separate property of each spouse.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
HB 146	49-0 (1945)	Author: Suiter, Mary Elizabeth \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Articles so as no longer to require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband, and to no longer require the separate acknowledgment of a married woman to the conveyance of the homestead.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 161	49-0 (1945)	Author: Parkhouse, George M. \| et. al.	Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring premarital examinations for syphilis; providing penalties.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 233	49-0 (1945)	Author: Simpson, Jr., Marvin B.	Relating to amending certain article relative to alimony.			\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 581	49-0 (1945)	Author: Foster, William S. "Bill"	Relating to creating fees for marriages, etc., not accounted for by County Judges and Justices of the Peace making the Statutes conform.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--Local \| JUSTICE OF THE PEACE \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 791	49-0 (1945)	Author: McAlister, Obel L.	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for authority of a wife to encumber, convey, or transfer her separate property when husband is in Armed Forces of the United States Government, and without the Continental United States.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
HJR 12	49-0 (1945)	Author: Bell, Marshall O. \| et. al.	Proposing an amendment adding a provision that the husband and wife from time to time may in writing partition between themselves in severability or into undivided interests all or any part of their community property, whereupon without prejudice to the right of existing creditors the portion or interest set aside to each spouse shall be and constitute a part of the separate property of such spouse.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Women
SB 65	49-0 (1945)	Author: Sulak, Louis J.	Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring premarital examinations for syphilis; providing penalties for violation thereof.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 14	48-0 (1943)	Author: Spacek, Rudolph B.	Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that before any county clerk shall issue a marriage license the man and woman shall supply information as to date of birth, residence, occupation, and as to the place and date of their parents, occupation of their father, and their mother's maiden name; requiring a doctor's certificate of the man with respect to venereal diseases.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 65	48-0 (1943)	Author: McMurry, Houston	Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that each of the parties entering into a contract of marriage in Texas be thoroughly examined by a physician legally licensed to practice medicine in Texas, who at the time of said examination caused to be made of specimens taken from such persons standard serological tests and such other laboratory procedures as are essential to the determination of freedom from syphilis and all other venereal diseases; providing penalties for violation of provisions of the Act.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--General \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 272	48-0 (1943)	Author: Humphrey, Joe C.	Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that the county clerk shall not issue a marriage license between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. on any day.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 325	48-0 (1943)	Author: Sadler, Harley Herman	Relating to providing for the registration in this State of the names of all divorced persons, names of any children, and date divorce granted, and for the compiling and preservation of records for such purposes.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 371	48-0 (1943)	Author: Bell, Marshall O. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that a husband and wife may by written agreement partition or exchange between themselves any part or all of their community property so that the former community interest of each spouse shall thereafter constitute the separate property of each spouse; repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 507	48-0 (1943)	Author: Brawner, Herbert F. \| et. al.	Relating to providing for the registration in this state of marriages, and for the compiling and preservation of records for such purposes.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
HB 687	48-0 (1943)	Author: Suiter, Mary Elizabeth \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Articles so as no longer to require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband, and to so as to no longer require the separate acknowledgment of a married woman to the conveyance of the homestead, and prescribing the form of certificate of acknowledgment for a married woman.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 714	48-0 (1943)	Author: Lyle, Jr., John Emmet \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Article by adding thereto additional circumstances under which soldiers, sailors, marines and other members of the Armed Services of the United States may maintain actions for divorce in certain counties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HJR 19	48-0 (1943)	Author: Bell, Marshall O. \| et. al.	Proposing an amendment adding thereto a provision that the husband and wife from time to time may in writing partition between themselves in severalty or into undivided interests all or any part of their community property, whereupon without prejudice to the right of existing creditors the portion or interest set aside to each spouse shall be and constitute a part of the separate property of such spouse; providing for the submission of this Amendment to the voters of this State.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Women
SB 176	48-0 (1943)	Author: Sulak, Louis J.	Relating to amending certain laws to provide that where a divorce is granted, children of the marriage shall be supported until they reach the age of eighteen (18) years.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 213	48-0 (1943)	Author: Moore, Weaver \| et. al.	Relating to providing that a husband and wife may by written agreement partition or exchange between themselves any part or all of their community property so that the former community interest of each spouse shall thereafter constitute the separate property of each spouse.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Women
SJR 6	48-0 (1943)	Author: Moore, Weaver \| et. al.	Proposing an amendment to Section 15 of Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by adding thereto a provision that the husband and wife, from time to time, may in writing partition between themselves in severalty or into undivided interests, all or any part of their community property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments \| Women
HB 79	47-0 (1941)	Author: McMurry, Houston \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that each of the parties entering into a contract of marriage in Texas be thoroughly examined by a physician to determine freedom from syphilis and all other venereal diseases; establishing certain laboratory procedures; establishing certain procedures for county clerks issuing marriage licenses; providing penalties for violation of provisions of this Act.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PHYSICIANS
HB 124	47-0 (1941)	Author: Smith, Magus F.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing grounds for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 243	47-0 (1941)	Author: Spacek, Rudolph B. \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that both the man and the woman shall supply separate affidavits with certain information before any county clerk shall issue a marriage license; requiring a doctor's certificate of both the man and the woman with respect to venereal diseases.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 512	47-0 (1941)	Author: Evans, Roger Q. \| et. al.	Relating to regulating the solemnization and validity of marriages in Texas.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 976	47-0 (1941)	Author: Blankenship, Dallas A. \| et. al.	Relating to regulating the solemnization of marriages in certain counties; prohibiting any person from soliciting within any courthouse or public building for the privilege of performing any marriage ceremony; providing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
SB 263	47-0 (1941)	Author: Shivers, Robert Allan "Allan"	Relating to amending certain Article authorizing the husband or wife to obtain a divorce where either spouse has been adjudged insane by a court of competent jurisdiction and has been confined in a public institution for a term of not less than five (5) years.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MENTAL INCOMPETENCY
SB 499	47-0 (1941)	Author: Vick, Kyle A.	Relating to amending a certain Act by adding that no County Clerk hall issue a marriage license between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m..			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 61	46-0 (1939)	Author: Brown, R. Lee	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that each of the parties entering into a contract of marriage be thoroughly examined by a physician.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 445	46-0 (1939)	Author: Burney, Weldon \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; cases in which a divorce may be decreed.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 537	46-0 (1939)	Author: Lock, Ottis E.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for divorce in case of insanity.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 681	46-0 (1939)	Author: Talbert, Eugene \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; prohibiting one against whom a divorce is granted in Texas from marrying within one year from the date of such divorce; providing a penalty for violation.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 716	46-0 (1939)	Author: Petsch, Alfred P.C.	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; more clearly defining what constitutes community property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 312	46-0 (1939)	Author: Shivers, Robert Allan "Allan"	Relating to amending a certain Statute to authorize the husband or wife to obtain a divorce where either spouse has been adjudged insane by a court of competent jurisdiction and has been confined in a public institution for insane for a term of not less than five (5) years.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
SB 445	45-0 (1937)	Author: Westerfeld, Claud C.	Relating to authorizing married women to make conveyances where husband becomes of unsound mind or deserts her and refuses to join in advantageous transactions.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
HB 232	44-0 (1935)	Author: Holland, Robert H.	Relating to regulating petitions in suits for divorce to require such petitions to state whether there are children under sixteen (16) years of age and if so, to give full information as to such minors, making it the duty of the Courts having jurisdiction of such suits to inquire into the status of such children, if divorce be granted.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 925	44-0 (1935)	Author: Steward, Hugh Birt	Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes: the residence of plaintiff in suits for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 28	43-0 (1933)	Author: Alsup, Lon E. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that persons who desire to marry shall procure from the County Clerk a license directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony, and that said license shall be sufficient to celebrate such marriage.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 262	43-0 (1933)	Author: Morse, Robert Emmett \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to marriage rights by striking out the words "after the death of her mother" immediately following the words "her mother's husband"; and by striking out the words "after the death of her daughter" immediately following the words "her daughter's husband."			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 30	42-0 (1931)	Author: Keller, Jack	Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it mandatory that the Court or Judge thereof set down at hearing an allowance for the support of deserted wives and children, providing for incidentals thereto.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 41	42-0 (1931)	Author: Walker, Albert G.	Relating to making it an offense for a person to cohabit with a husband or wife which he has married without the State when such person has living at such time another husband or wife; providing for a penalty and things incidental thereto.			\| BIGAMY \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 89	42-0 (1931)	Author: Gilbert, Victor Byron	Relating to making unlawful cohabitation with another in this State after a bigamous marriage elsewhere; making such an offense a felony and providing a penalty.			\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 110	42-0 (1931)	Author: Hines, Charles C. "Charlie"	Relating to amending certain statutes so as to authorize an application to be filed by a wife in case the whereabouts of the husband are unknown.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 118	42-0 (1931)	Author: Wiggs, Wilburn H.	Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the issuance of marriage license.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 173	42-0 (1931)	Author: Hardy, Bailey Whitson \| et. al.	Relating to divorces; amending certain civil statutes providing for the grounds for divorces and providing for interlocutory judgments in divorce cases.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 187	42-0 (1931)	Author: Sullivant, Carroll Fulton \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain Acts relating to marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 221	42-0 (1931)	Author: Boyd, W. W.	Relating to amending certain Act relating to grounds for divorce where either party is insane.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
HB 305	42-0 (1931)	Author: Hughes, Sarah Tilghman \| et. al.	Relating to repealing certain statutes so as to eliminate the necessity of the wife's separate acknowledgment and the other requirements repealed in the conveyance of homestead.			\| DISCRIMINATION \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 318	42-0 (1931)	Author: Cox, George Joshua	Relating to regulating and restricting the appointive power of heads of State Departments and Institutions and of the employees of such Departments and Institutions; restricting and regulating the appointive power in the Legislature.			\| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| NEPOTISM \| State Officers
SB 28	42-0 (1931)	Author: Parrish, Pinkney L. "Pink"	Relating to repealing certain Articles relating to the filing of an application for license to marry and for the production of a certificate from a licensed physician.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 116	42-0 (1931)	Author: Woodruff, Henry Grady	Relating to amending certain statutes by providing an additional grounds for divorce where either spouse is continuously incarcerated in an insane asylum for ten years or more.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
SB 117	42-0 (1931)	Author: Loy, Jacob Jackson "Jake"	Relative to repealing certain Articles 4604-A and 4604-B of Section 1, Chapter 114 Acts of the Regular Session of the 41st Legislature relating to the rights of matrimony.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 214	42-0 (1931)	Author: Hornsby, John William	Relating to providing for a permanent record of all marriages and divorces in the State of Texas; making an appropriation.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
SB 273	42-0 (1931)	Author: Woodul, Sr., Walter Frank	Relating to regulating petitions in suits for divorce, to require such petitions to state whether there are children under sixteen yeras of age.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 628	42-0 (1931)	Author: Williamson, W. Albert "Cap"	Relating to making it an offense for any husband to willfully desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife, who may be in necessitous circumstances, or any parent who shall willfully desert, neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of any child, under a certain age; prescribing fines, penalties, and punishment.			\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 45	41-0 (1929)	Author: Land, Cornelius L.	Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to provide that person who desire to marry shall procure a license from the county clerk, directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony.	House: Judiciary		\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 47	41-0 (1929)	Author: Acker, Sr., Walter P.	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the granting of divorces, by striking out the words, "Except where the husband or wife is insane," following the words, "Grounds for divorce," and adding thereto a new subdivision to be known as number six (6) affecting cases of inanity; and providing for service in such cases.	House: Judiciary		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 50	41-0 (1929)	Author: Acker, Sr., Walter P.	Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to provide that persons who desire to marry shall procure a license from the county clerk directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rite of matrimony.	House: Judiciary		\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 59	41-0 (1929)	Author: Hubbard, Robert Moss \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the marital rights of parties, defining separate property of the husband and wife, exempting separate property of husband from debts contracted by the wife except for necessaries furnished herself and children after her marriage with him, and from torts of the wife, giving husband management, control, and disposition of his separate property during marriage, providing that the wife shall have the sole management, control and disposition of her separate property provided that the joinder of the husband shall be necessary to a conveyance or encumbrance of the wife's lands, bonds, and stocks, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therein.	House: Judiciary		\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 93	41-0 (1929)	Author: Sherrill, Clarence Junius	Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to provide that persons who desire to marry shall procure a license from the county clerk directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony.	House: Judiciary		\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 141	41-0 (1929)	Author: Petsch, Alfred P.C. \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Statute by providing that when the wife is offered as a witness by the defendant in his behalf she may be cross-examined by the State upon all matters relevant and material to the trial.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence		\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 151	41-0 (1929)	Author: Johnson, Andrew Percy	Relating to amending and repealing certain Statutes so as to eliminate the necessity of the wife's separate acknowledgement and the other requirements of said statutes, herein repealed, in the conveyance of homesteads.	House: Judiciary		\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
HB 172	41-0 (1929)	Author: Duvall, Jesse Caldwell	Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that persons who desire to marry shall procure a license from the county clerk directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony.	House: Judiciary		\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 200	41-0 (1929)	Author: Graves, Harry N.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to desertion of wife and child by eliminating the provision therein that the wife and child deserted should be in destitute and necessitous circumstances.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence		\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 220	41-0 (1929)	Author: Conway, Virgil E. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of Texas so as to make the offense of desertion of wife or child a felony, providing a penalty thereof.	House: Criminal Jurisprudence		\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 396	41-0 (1929)	Author: Minor, Fred Hawthorne	Relating to amending certain laws declaring and defining the legal rights of married women; defining the separate property of married persons; regulating the management, control, disposition and liability of such separate property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 614	41-0 (1929)	Author: Keller, Jack	Relating to grounds for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 636	41-0 (1929)	Author: Hines, Charles C. "Charlie"	Relating to authorizing an application to be filed by a wife in case the whereabouts of the husband are unknown.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| Women
SB 74	41-0 (1929)	Author: Hyer, Julien Capers	Relating to providing that persons who desire to marry shall procure a license from the County Clerk directed to all persons authorized by law to celebrate the rites of matrimony.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 175	41-0 (1929)	Author: Moore, Joseph M. "Joe" \| et. al.	Relating to making the offense of desertion of wife or child a felony, providing a penalty therefor.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 215	41-0 (1929)	Author: Williamson, W. Albert "Cap"	Relating to the residence of plaintiffs in divorce suits, so as to extend the benefits of the divorce laws of the State of Texas to persons in the military and naval service of the United States.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans \| RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS
SB 244	41-0 (1929)	Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"	Relating to amending certain laws so as to eliminate the necessity of the wife's separate acknowledgment.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Women
HB 197	40-0 (1927)	Author: Duvall, Jesse Caldwell	Relating to the grounds for divorce; providing that insanity on the part of either the husband or wife shall constitute a ground for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 210	40-0 (1927)	Author: Hornaday, Emery Polk \| et. al.	Relating to community property and the disposition thereof.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
HB 273	40-0 (1927)	Author: Duvall, Jesse Caldwell	Relating to divorces.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 330	40-0 (1927)	Author: Petsch, Alfred P.C.	Relating to amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that in all criminal actions where either the husband or wife becomes or is used as a witness for the other, such husband or wife may be cross-examined by the state.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 640	40-0 (1927)	Author: Renfro, John F.	Relating to amending a certain article of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 to omit from its provision "a married woman".			\| Courts--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
SB 184	40-0 (1927)	Author: McFarlane, William Doddridge	Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas, revision of 1925, by providing that in all criminal actions where either the husband or wife becomes or is used as witness for the other,such husband or wife may be cross-examined by the State with the same latitude and in the same manner as any other witness.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 217	40-0 (1927)	Author: Neal, Mary Elizabeth "Margie"	Relating to adequately providing for the support of the wife and the education and support of minor children, by the husband.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 269	40-0 (1927)	Author: Pollard, Sr., Tomas (Thomas) Glover	Relating to community property, and the disposition thereof, so as to provide for the control, management and disposition of community property by the wife, when the husband has disappeared and his whereabouts is unknown to the wife for more than six months, and providing the method and procedure for making proof of the existence of the facts necessary to give her such rights of control, management and disposition.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 325	40-0 (1927)	Author: Real, Julius	Relating to marriage licenses; requiring the County Clerk to deliver in person or by mailing the marriage license to the husband after the same is recorded.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 110	40-1 (1927)	Author: Williams, William Thomas "Willie"	Relating to authorizing the State Comptroller to join in behalf of the State in contracts for the collection of delinquent taxes under the certain provisions and providing that the form of such contract shall be prepared by the Attorney General and that the same shall not be valid without such joiner.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 142	40-1 (1927)	Author: Duvall, Jesse Caldwell	Relating to amending Article 4629 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 regarding divorces so as to make Subdivision 4 thereof read as follows: "Where a husband and wife have lived apart without co-habitation for as long as five years".			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 13	39-0 (1925)	Author: Lane, Wade Pope	Relating to prohibiting the marriage of any person infected with syphilis, gonococcus infection or chancroid; requiring the male applicant for marriage license to submit certificate of any reputable practicing physician in this State showing applicant to be free from disease; fixing maximum fee for examination, and providing a penalty.	House: Public Health		\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions
HB 62	39-0 (1925)	Author: Poage, William Robert "Bob"	Relating to amending certain statute by providing that no husband or wife who feloniously takes or cause or procures another so to take the life of husband or wife of such person, shall inherit from such person or take by devise or legacy from such husband or wife so killed or murdered, any portion of his or her community estate, and in such case where husband or wife feloniously takes or causes or procures another to so take the life of their husband or wife, as the case may be, then all property belonging to the community estate of the husband or wife, whose life is so taken shall go to and vest in the descendants or heirs at law as otherwise provided in certain statute.	House: Judiciary		\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 89	39-0 (1925)	Author: Acker, Sr., Walter P.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to the management, control and disposition of community property by the wife of a deceased or insane husband providing for the renewal, and extension of the maturity date of community debts and liens securing same.	House: Judiciary		\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MENTAL INCOMPETENCY \| Property Interests--General
HB 132	39-0 (1925)	Author: Cummings, Emry Spencer	Relating to amending certain statute so as to limit the authority of the jury and of the district judge and to reduce the issuance of divorces within the State of Texas; providing that a divorce shall not be granted on the uncorroborated evidence of the plaintiff.	House: Judiciary		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 133	39-0 (1925)	Author: Cummings, Emry Spencer \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas so as to prescribe a heavier penalty for the desertion and failure to support wife or children.	House: Judiciary		\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 189	39-0 (1925)	Author: Barron, Sr., Wingate Stuart	Relating to amending certain statute relative to the form of acknowledgment for married women; repealing and amending the necessary statutes so that it will no longer be necessary for married women to be examined privily or apart from their husbands, or having the instrument signed by them explained to them by the officer taking their acknowledgement.	House: State Affairs		\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 223	39-0 (1925)	Author: Wilson, Bates Frayser	Relating to authorizing county attorneys or criminal district attorney to appear in behalf of the State of Texas in certain suits for divorce; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.	House: Judiciary		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Lawyers
HB 247	39-0 (1925)	Author: Cade, J. Robert	Relating to the amending certain statute relating to protection of a wife's interest in property so as to provide that a wife be not liable for the accommodation or surety obligations of the husband unless such obligation was also executed by the wife.	House: Judiciary		\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 305	39-0 (1925)	Author: Dielmann, Sr., Henry B. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to the granting of divorces	House: Judiciary		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 310	39-0 (1925)	Author: Dielmann, Sr., Henry B. \| et. al.	Relating to providing for the filing of notice of intention with the county clerk; providing how and by whom such notice shall be filed; providing for the posting of a copy of such notice and providing that no fee shall be charged for such filing and posting.	House: Judiciary		\| County Government--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| PUBLIC NOTICE
SB 39	39-0 (1925)	Author: Davis, John	Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the granting of divorces.	Senate: Civil Jurisprudence		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 197	39-0 (1925)	Author: Witt, Edgar E.	Relating to inheritance of property by either husband or wife where either causes the death of the other.	Senate: Civil Jurisprudence		\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 412	39-0 (1925)	Author: Real, Julius	Relating to amending certain statute providing the cases in which divorces may be granted.	Senate: Civil Jurisprudence		\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 24	38-0 (1923)	Author: Dodd, Joseph Abner	Relating to requiring all men to submit to physical examination and furnish to the clerks to whom they apply for license to marry a certificate from a reputable physician that they are free from venereal disease; prescribing penalties.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 66	38-0 (1923)	Author: Jacks, Nathaniel Green	Relating to regulating the issuance of marriage licenses by county clerks, and providing for the publication of applications to the said county clerk for marriage licenses applied for.			\| County Government--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 85	38-0 (1923)	Author: Wilmans, Edith Eunice	Relating to prohibiting the issuance of marriage licenses unless such application is accompanied by a certificate from a reputable physician; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PHYSICIANS
HB 88	38-0 (1923)	Author: Baldwin, Roy Alvin \| et. al.	Relating to providing for issuance by clerks of the county court of license to marry; requiring such clerk before issuing such license to demand and receive from the male person, party to such marriage contract, a certificate in writing made by a reputable, licensed and regularly practicing physician of this State, certifying on his honor that such person is not afflicted with any contagious or communicable venereal disease, and prescribing the requisites of such certificates; prescribing penalties for violations of this act.			\| BLOOD & MEDICAL TESTS \| County Government--Employees/Officers \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 107	38-0 (1923)	Author: Purl, George Clark \| et. al.	Relating to making it an offense for any husband to willfully, or without justification, desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or any parent who shall willfully desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of sixteen year in destitute or necessitous circumstances; prescribing a penalty therefor.			\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Child Protection \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 125	38-0 (1923)	Author: Jacks, Nathaniel Green \| et. al.	Relating to amending statute relating to the celebration of the rites of matrimony, by adding thereto the words "and judges of all other courts of record in this State," and changing said statute so as to read "and validating marriages heretofore celebrated by judges of courts of record of this State."			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES
HB 160	38-0 (1923)	Author: Coffee, Sr., Roy Clarence	Relating to amending statute with reference to the issuance of marriage licenses so as to provide that no license to marry shall be issued except in the county of the residence of the female desiring to marry unless the parent or guardian is present in person and gives his or her consent for the issuance of such license.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 383	38-0 (1923)	Author: Russell, Benjamin Lee "Ben"	Relating to amending statutes pertaining to separate property of spouses by providing that the separate property of the wife may be mortgaged, pledged or incumbered for any purpose.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Mortgages & Liens \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 421	38-0 (1923)	Author: Perdue, James M.	Relating to providing that when a suit for divorce is filed in this state against a non-resident of the state, and defendant appears and files an answer, and cross-bill thereto, and therein that the right of the defendant to have the cross-bill and issue raised by it, heard and determined by the court, shall not be defeated by a dismissal or withdrawal of the plaintiff's suit.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 426	38-0 (1923)	Author: Greer, Julian Preston	Relating to amending certain statute so as to allow the husband or wife to secure a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, when either the husband or wife has been convicted of lunacy in a court of competent jurisdiction.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
HB 568	38-0 (1923)	Author: Dodd, Joseph Abner	Relating to providing that the State Bureau of Vital Statistics shall keep a record of all marriages and divorces in this State.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| HEALTH, STATE BOARD OF
SB 27	38-0 (1923)	Author: Doyle, William Elliott	Relating to inhibiting the granting of divorcees but for the cause of adultery.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 58	38-0 (1923)	Author: Davis, John	Relating to repealing and amending certain Articles relating to the privy acknowledgment of married women so as to omit the requirement in said articles of the separate and privy acknowledgment of the wife.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead
SB 66	38-0 (1923)	Author: Davis, John	Relating to providing that any suit for the recovery of any land or tenement or interest therein, or for the removal of cloud upon the title thereto, shall be brought within twelve months next after the date such acknowledgment was taken and not thereafter.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
SB 96	38-0 (1923)	Author: Davis, John	Relating to making it an offense for any husband to willfully, or without justification, desert, neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or their child or children under the age of sixteen years.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 145	38-0 (1923)	Author: Stuart, Robert Alda	Relating to providing for the entering of interlocutory decrees in all divorce suits brought in this state.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 161	38-0 (1923)	Author: Doyle, William Elliott	Relating to amending certain statute relating to the granting of divorces in certain cases.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 190	38-0 (1923)	Author: Stuart, Robert Alda	Relating to providing that all applications for marriage licenses shall be filed with the county clerk of any county in this State 60 says before the final issuance of such license.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 242	38-0 (1923)	Author: Burkett, Sr., Joseph W.	Relating to providing that the separate property of the wife may be mortgaged, pledged or encumbered for any purpose.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Mortgages & Liens \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
SB 319	38-0 (1923)	Author: Ridgeway, Thomas Henry	Relating to amending certain statute providing the cases in which divorce may be granted.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 193	38-2 (1923)	Author: Culp, Isaac W.	Relating to providing for keeping records of marriages and divorces and fees therefor; providing that the State Bureau of Vital Statistics shall keep a record of all marriage licenses issued by them on blanks furnished by the State Board of Health fixing a fee for the same and providing that he shall report monthly to the State Board of Health.			\| County Government--Employees/Officers \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State \| HEALTH, STATE BOARD OF \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS \| VITAL STATISTICS, BUREAU OF
HB 50	37-0 (1921)	Author: Rogers, James Preston	Relating to a certain Act adding provisions and fixing the venue of Divorce Suits and requiting petitions to be attested by oath of complaint as to matters of residence.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 125	37-0 (1921)	Author: Baldwin, Roy Alvin	Relating to a certain Act regarding the issuance of licenses to marry.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 180	37-0 (1921)	Author: Hill, Herman B.	Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the acknowledgment by a married women.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 208	37-0 (1921)	Author: Sneed, Jerome Hardeman	Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the purchase of marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 212	37-0 (1921)	Author: Quaid, John Erskell	Relating to a certain Act regarding the filing and recording of instruments of writing.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 262	37-0 (1921)	Author: Bonham, Herbert Spencer	Relating to amend a certain Act filing of suit for divorce on the ground of cruel treatment.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 269	37-0 (1921)	Author: Henderson, Robert L.	Relating to a certain Act regarding the relief of certain persons who have been absent in military service of the United States.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 359	37-0 (1921)	Author: Brown, J. H.	Relating to fixing the venue in prosecution for bigamy.			\| BIGAMY \| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 381	37-0 (1921)	Author: Black, O. B. \| et. al.	Relating to making the State a party to divorce suits.			\| Courts--Prosecuting Attorneys \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 36	37-0 (1921)	Author: Cousins, Sr., William Roy \| et. al.	Relating to regulating domestic relations by prescribing prerequisites to the issuance of marriage licenses; relating to divorces and obligations of fathers to legitimate children.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 82	37-0 (1921)	Author: Bailey, John H.	Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the separate property of the husband shall not be subject to torts of the wife, and the separate property of the wife shall not be subject to the torts of the husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
SB 140	37-0 (1921)	Author: Witt, Edgar E.	Relating to authorizing the bringing of a suit for divorce in this State by persons who are in the military or naval services of the State and who are citizens of the State but who have been absent from the State for more than twelve months, and from the county for more than six months.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Military & Veterans
HB 107	37-1 (1921)	Author: Patman, John William Wright \| et. al.	Relating to the desertion of a wife by her husband.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 108	37-1 (1921)	Author: Patman, John William Wright \| et. al.	Relating to making it an offense for a white person and a negro to have intercourse with each other; providing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
HB 24	36-0 (1919)	Author: Fairchild, I. D. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes concerning the marital rights of parties; defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife; conferring upon the wife the power to make contracts; authorizing suits on such contracts.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| Women
HB 38	36-0 (1919)	Author: Dodd, Joseph Abner	Relating to requiring all men to submit to physical examination and furnish to the clerks to whom they apply for license to marry, a certificate from a reputable physician that they are free from venereal disease; prescribing penalties.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 101	36-0 (1919)	Author: Terrell, George Butler \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to causes for divorce by making incurable insanity a cause for divorce, prescribing the manner of service.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 186	36-0 (1919)	Author: Horton, Frank B. \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide for interlocutory and final judgments in actions for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 250	36-0 (1919)	Author: Bonham, Herbert Spencer \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes by defining more fully the separate property of the wife and the community property of the husband and the wife, by fixing and defining the liabilities to which the separate property of the husband, the separate property of the wife and the community property of the husband and the wife respectively may be subjected and providing that before resort can be had to the community property on a debt contracted by the wife alone or on a debt contracted by the husband alone, the separate, the separate property of the spouse contracting such debt shall first be exhausted			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 254	36-0 (1919)	Author: Stout, Lee E.	Relating to amending certain statute relating to the celebration of marriages by requiring the county clerk to inquire into and ascertain the nationality of all persons procuring license to marry and requiring the clerk to make and keep a record showing same.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 427	36-0 (1919)	Author: Sneed, Jerome Hardeman	Relating to amending certain statute requiring marriage license to be obtained in the county of the residence of the bride.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 34	36-0 (1919)	Author: Dorough, Robert Pierce "Bob" \| et. al.	Relating to amending certain statutes concerning the marital rights of parties, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, conferring upon the wife power to make contracts, authorizing suits on such contracts.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 25	36-2 (1919)	Author: Dodd, Joseph Abner \| et. al.	Relating to requiring all men to submit to physical examination and to produce a certificate that they are free from venereal disease when applying for license to marry; prescribing penalties.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 118	36-3 (1920)	Author: Sentell, C. Frank	Relating to amending certain laws relating to the Celebration of Marriage so as to place additional safeguards around the granting of marriage licenses.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 222	35-0 (1917)	Author: Blackburn, Marvin Ellis \| et. al.	Relating to the rights of married women to own property, make contracts, giving control over rents from her real estate and interest on bonds and stock owned by her, and over her personal earnings, exempting them from debts owed by her husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 468	35-0 (1917)	Author: Terrell, George Butler \| et. al.	Relating to amending law relating to causes for divorce to include incurable insanity.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 473	35-0 (1917)	Author: Dodd, Joseph Abner	Relating to requiring all male persons entering into matrimony contacts to under physical examination to certify freedom from venereal diseases.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 6	35-0 (1917)	Author: Westbrook, Ed	Relating to providing that all persons desiring to marry shall procure a license, and declaring all other marriages null and void.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 28	35-0 (1917)	Author: Bee, Carlos	Relating to amending certain laws relating to the granting of divorces.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 160	35-4 (1918)	Author: Fly, William Madden	Relating to providing a permanent record of all marriages and divorces in the State; prescribing a fee to be paid upon the issuance of the marriage license.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| VITAL STATISTICS & RECORDS
SB 65	35-4 (1918)	Author: Hudspeth, Claude Benton	Relating to amending the "Wife Desertion Law".			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 59	34-0 (1915)	Author: Williams, B. F. \| et. al.	Relating to amending a certain Act granting of marriage licenses to people of certain ages; requiring consent of the parent or guardian.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 330	34-0 (1915)	Author: Blackburn, Marvin Ellis	Relating to amending a certain Law relating to the right of married women to sell and dispose of their separate property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property \| Property Interests--Real Property
HB 398	34-0 (1915)	Author: Wynn, W. I.	Relating to amending the Revised Penal Code defining adultery so as to eliminate the word "habitual."			\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 57	34-0 (1915)	Author: Bee, Carlos	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the granting of divorces.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 93	34-0 (1915)	Author: Wiley, James Robert	Relating to amending the definition of adultery in the Penal code so as to eliminate the word "habitual."			\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 94	34-0 (1915)	Author: Wiley, James Robert	Relating to amending the definition of "Fornication" in the penal code so as to eliminate the word "habitual."			\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 100	34-0 (1915)	Author: Westbrook, Ed	Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that all persons desirous of marrying shall procure a license and declaring all marriages contracted, entered into or celebrated in any other manner null and void.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 143	34-0 (1915)	Author: Wiley, James Robert	Relating to validating marriages in all instances where the return and record of the marriage license has not been made as provided by law; declaring the issue of such co-habitation legitimate.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 152	34-0 (1915)	Author: Townsend, Jr., William J. "Jim"	Relating to providing that all property or money received as compensation for personal injuries sustained by the wife, shall be her separate property, except such actually and necessary expenses as may have accumulated against the husband for hospital fees, medical bills, and all other expenses incident to the collection of said compensation.			\| Civil Remedies & Liabilities \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
HB 58	34-1 (1915)	Author: McComb, Jacob W.	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to grounds for divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 49	34-1 (1915)	Author: Johnson, Willard Arnold	Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to grounds for divorces.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 22	33-0 (1913)	Author: Goodner, W. B. \| et. al.	Relating to marital rights of parties, defining separate and community property of husband and wife.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Personal Property
HB 44	33-0 (1913)	Author: Diffie, William Owen \| et. al.	Relating to the granting of divorces.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 161	33-0 (1913)	Author: Templeton, Rufus Lee	Relating to making any divorced person who shall re-marry within one year, guilty of a misdemeanor; providing penalties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 165	33-0 (1913)	Author: Dove, Daniel C. \| et. al.	Relating to requiring that a man and a woman separate and live apart for at least one year before either party may enter suit for divorce, and prohibiting either of them from marrying any other person in one year from the granting of such divorce; providing penalties.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 194	33-0 (1913)	Author: Gates, Sam	Relating to incest and to add a provision to prohibit the marriage of first cousins.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 196	33-0 (1913)	Author: Allison, Matthew Freestone \| et. al.	Relating to defining the offense of adultery, prescribing a penalty for violation thereof.			\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 198	33-0 (1913)	Author: Terrell, Chester H. \| et. al.	Relating to desertion or non-support of wife or children; stating the nature of evidence admissible; and providing punishment therefor.			\| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 257	33-0 (1913)	Author: Cox, George Joshua	Relating to prohibiting divorced persons from marrying within three years from date of divorce, providing a penalty.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 268	33-0 (1913)	Author: Butler, William R.	Relating to the granting of divorce.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 321	33-0 (1913)	Author: Nabours, W. R.	Relating to defining incest and prescribing a penalty.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 411	33-0 (1913)	Author: McKamy, Jr., William Cooper	Relating to amending Article 795, Chapter 7, of the Code of Criminal Procedure.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 432	33-0 (1913)	Author: Ridgell, Thomas B. \| et. al.	Relating to making insanity a ground for divorce, when same shall have continued for ten consecutive years and there shall be no reasonable expectation that the insane shall ever be restored to sanity, and prescribing rules of procedure in suits for divorce on such grounds.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Mental Health & Mental Retardation
HB 717	33-0 (1913)	Author: Watson, Aaron R.	Relating to amending the General Laws relating to the issuance of a marriage license, the amendment providing that in case of a female under eighteen years of age and a male under twenty-one years of age, the consent of the parents or guardian shall be given in person or in writing.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 768	33-0 (1913)	Author: Parker, Daniel F.	Relating to promoting the purification of the race by the prevention of marriages that will probably result in defective progeny which will likely become a charge to the state and a menace to society.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 815	33-0 (1913)	Author: Hall, William L. \| et. al.	Relating to amending Chapter 1 of the Penal Code by adding thereto Article 483-A declaring it to be an offense for any white person and negro to cohabit together or carnally know each other and prescribing a penalty.			\| Crimes--Against Morals \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Human Relations
HB 872	33-0 (1913)	Author: Haney, Edgar Pierce \| et. al.	Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relating to alimony.			\| ALIMONY \| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 15	33-0 (1913)	Author: Vaughan, Horace Worth	Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes concerning the marital rights of parties, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, conferring upon the wife power to make contracts, authorizing suits on such contracts.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 35	33-0 (1913)	Author: Darwin, Henry Lewis \| et. al.	Relating to the rights of married persons, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, removing the disabilities of coverture as they relate to married women, defining the rights of the wife in case the husband fails to support her and their children and regulating judgments and executions against the husband.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 85	33-0 (1913)	Author: Astin, James Robert \| et. al.	Relating to making the separate property of the wife, the rents and revenues derived from property granted to the wife her separate property; and to exempt the same from the management and control of the husband, and from debts contracted by him.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General \| Women
SB 99	33-0 (1913)	Author: Townsend, Jr., William J. "Jim"	Relating to punishing any person who shall without good cause abandon his wife or willfully neglect or refuse to maintain or provide for her, and to punish every person who shall abandon his or her minor children under the age of 16 years old.			\| Crimes--Against Persons--General \| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 100	33-0 (1913)	Author: Morrow, Wright Chalfant \| et. al.	Relating to amending Chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1911, Concerning the marital rights of parties, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, conferring upon the wife power to make contracts, authorizing suits on such contracts, repealing article 4625, Title 66, Chapter 3, Revised Statutes, and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--General
SB 133	33-0 (1913)	Author: Watson, Quintus Ultimus	Relating to amending the Revised Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide that neither husband nor wife can testify against each other in any criminal action either during the time of coverture or after divorce, except in cases where prosecution is pending for an offense committed by one against the other.			\| Criminal Procedure--Trial \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
SB 200	33-0 (1913)	Author: Warren, Robert Lee \| et. al.	Relating to providing that no person, male or female, under sixteen years of age shall marry.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Minors--General
SB 300	33-0 (1913)	Author: Wiley, James Robert	Relating to validating marriages in all instances where the return and record of the marriage license has not been made as provided by law.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
SB 329	33-0 (1913)	Author: Lattimore, Offa Shivers	Relating to regulating the granting of divorces and decrees of separation in this state and the fixing of the status of property and of the rights of children in such cases.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 372	33-0 (1913)	Author: Westbrook, Ed	Relating to amending article 4610 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, providing that all persons desirous of marrying shall procure a license authorizing its celebration, and declaring all marriages contracted, entered into or celebrated in any other manner null and void.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 8	32-0 (1911)	Author: Cable, Robert L.	Relating to the issuance of a marriage license, providing that in case of a female under eighteen years of age and a male under twenty-one years of age, the consent of the parent or guardian shall be given in person or in writing.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE LICENSES \| PARENTAL CONSENT
HB 74	32-0 (1911)	Author: Maxwell, John	Relating to providing for the removal of married women's disabilities of coverture, and to declare her feme sole for mercantile and trading purposes.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Women
HB 468	31-0 (1909)	Author: Westbrook, Richard E.	Relating to defining the offense of abandonment after seduction and marriage of an unmarried female, under twenty-five years of age; providing punishment.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 77	30-0 (1907)	Author: McCallum, Claude M.	Relating to making it a misdemeanor to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person, of his wife, his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and providing penalties for the violation of this Act.			\| Crimes--Miscellaneous \| Family--Child Support \| Family--Marriage Relationship
SB 40	29-0 (1905)		Relating to providing for return of inventory list of claims and list of indebtedness in the administration of community estates.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
HB 9	26-0 (1899)		Relating to amending Article 969, Chapter 3, Title 18, Penal Code, Revised Statutes of 1895, relating to marriages in cases of seduction.			\| Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual \| Family--Marriage Relationship
HB 820	26-0 (1899)		Relating to preventing and punishing celebration of marriages without a license.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| MARRIAGE LICENSES
HB 41	25-0 (1897)		Relating to amending the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, relating to divorce, so as to make husband and wife competent witnesses.			\| DIVORCE \| Family--Marriage Relationship \| WITNESSES
HB 67	25-0 (1897)		Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, relating to the acknowledgments of married women as to the conveyance of their separate property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Real Property \| Women
HB 68	25-0 (1897)		Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, relating to the acknowledgment of married women as to the conveyance of a homestead.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Property Interests--Homestead \| Women
SB 138	23-0 (1893)		Relating to community property.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| Probate--Wills & Admin of Estates
SB 158	21-0 (1889)		Relating to providing that Jewish rabbis be added to the list of those authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony.			\| Family--Marriage Relationship \| MARRIAGE CEREMONIES \| Religion
HB 53	20-0 (1887)		Relating to the penalty for bigamy.			\| Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment \| Family--Marriage Relationship

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